Insulation & Specialties, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board DecisionsNov 13, 1963

144 N.L.R.B. 1540 (N.L.R.B. 1963)

1540 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Petitioner seeks to enjoin the Unions' picketing activities in the Peti- tioner's port area. No responses gas provided by the Board's Rules and Regulations have been filed by the Unions. The Board has duly considered the allegations of the petition. The Board's advisory opinion procedures "are designed primarily to deter- mine questions of jurisdiction by application of the Board's discre- tionary standards to the `commerce' operations of an employer." 1 The issue posed herein by the Petitioner relates to whether the Unions are "labor organizations" within the meaning of the Act. As this issue does not concern questions of the applicability of the Board's discretionary commerce standards, it does not fall within the intend- ment of the Board's Advisory Opinion Rules.2 [The Board dismissed the petition.] 'Interlake Steamship Company and Pickands Mather & Co ., 138 NLRB 57G , and cases cited herein 2 See Interlake Steamship Company and Pickands Mather & Co ., supra, footnote 3 Insulation & Specialties, Inc., Petitioner and International Asso- ciation of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, Local No. 66. Case No. 16-R111-2444. November 13, 1963 DECISION AND ORDER Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before Hearing Officer Sulton Boyd. The Hearing Officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from pre- judicial error