# Scofield v. National Labor Relations Board

> Supreme Court of the United States · April 1, 1969 · 394 U.S. 423

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9423976

## Case

- **Full name:** SCOFIELD Et Al. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** April 1, 1969
- **Citations:** 394 U.S. 423; 70 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 3105; 89 S. Ct. 1154; 22 L. Ed. 2d 385; 1969 U.S. LEXIS 3191
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Black
- **Judges:** Black, White, Marshall
- **Cited by:** 158 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Limited by National Labor Relations Board v. Boeing Co., 412 U.S. 67 (1973).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9423976

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Black,
dissenting.
Because the union members collected from their employer extra pay for piecework production in excess of that agreed upon by the union and the company, the union has tried the members, fined them, and suspended them from the union for one year. Section 8(b)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to “restrain or coerce” employees in the exercise of their right under § 7 to refrain from any or all concerted activities. In this case the National Labor Relations Board held that the union did not commit' an unfair labor practice in coercing employees through fines and suspensions into refusing to engage in this concerted activity. I dissent from affirming this order of the Board for the reasons set out at length in my dissenting opinion in NLRB v. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., 388 U. S. 175, 199 (1967).

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