Operations In Fiscal Year 1988 - National Labor Relations Board

164 Fifty-Third Annual Report of the National Labor Relations BoardFinally, the saga of NLRB v. Newspaper & Mail Deliverers"continued during fiscal year 1988. In the 1987 annual report, wereported on two contempt adjudications issued against the unionduring that year—an initial contempt adjudication issued on October30, 1986, and a second adjudication issued May 4, 1987, imposinga fme of $25,000. The union's refusal to post and publishBoard notices continued despite these orders. Accordingly, theBoard moved the court for the imposition of additional fmes andfor issuance of a writ of body attachment against the responsibleunion agent. On October 1, 1987, the Second Circuit upheld theBoard's position and issued its third contempt adjudicationagainst the union. In that order the court assessed a fme of$175,000 against the union, ordered that the union pay $2,895.11in costs and attorneys' fees, and issued a writ of body attachmentagainst the business representative to be effective until full compliancewas achieved. The court subsequently reduced the compliancefme to $112,000 and all aspects of the Board's Order andadjudication were satisfied before the body attachment writ wasexecuted.18 See fn. 6, supra.