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LABOR LAW POTPOURRI
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determined that the sole objective of the union was to preserve for employees of the struck employer work they had traditionally performed. In so doing the Circuit Court ignored the realities of the situation by permitting the union to exert unlawful secondary pressure in a situation where the subcontractor had no control over the work in question.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RESTRICTS EFFECT OF IDAHO OSHA DECISION
On February 11, 1977, the Federal Court of Appeals in Idaho held that the so-called surprise investigations and inspections without notification by OSHA were illegal because the provisions permitting such actions on the part of the U.S. Department of Labor inspectors were unconstitutional. Subsequently, a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court modified the injunction order that restrained the Department of Labor from making such surprise inspections, limiting the restraining order to the district of Idaho.
In other words, until the United States Supreme Court decides the appeal taken by the Secretary of Labor, the injunction order was limited to the State of Idaho. Then at the request of the Department of Labor, Justice Rindquist of the U.S. Supreme Court issued another order which limited the injunction to only jobs of the contractor in question who brought the action against the Department of Labor in Idaho. Therefore, the Idaho decision presently applies only to the one contractor who challenged the in- continued on page 26
Randy Estrade (right), chairman of the Masonry Institute of Houston-Galveston promotional group, presents masonry design award to Gene Aubry (left) and Tom Daly of the architectural firm of S.I. Morris Associates.
NICHOLAS CLAYTON AWARDS
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were anonymous so that designs could be evaluated on their own merits. The awards jury consisted of Stanley Tigerman. Y.C. Wong, and Gertrude Lempp Kerbis, all practicing in Chicago.
The Masonry Institute chose the name of Nicholas Clayton for its awards program because of his acknowledged contribution to Gulf Coast architecture at the turn of the century. His designs, like the Bishops Palace in Galveston, employed masonry in a highly imaginative fashion.
At the awards event, Drexel Turner of the University of Houston School of Architecture delivered an historical account of Clayton's work. Turner is in the process of preparing a book on Clayton's techniques and design career.
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