This case raises no difficult legal or factual issues. It involves picketing by Local 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ("Local 3") of Telecom Plus of New York City, Inc., an entity which had recognized a labor organization other than Local 3 as the bargaining representative of its employees. The National Labor Relations Board ("the Board") found that Local 3 had engaged in recognitional or organizational picketing in violation of Secs. 8(b)(7)(A) and (C), 29 U.S.C. Secs. 158(b)(7)(A) and (C) (1982). In so finding, the Board was supported by ample evidence. In rejecting Local 3's "ally doctrine" defense, the Board correctly found no place for that doctrine in a Section 8(b)(7) proceeding. In construing Local 3's "single employer" defense as an "alter ego" defense, and in rejecting that defense despite the common ownership of Telecom Plus of New York and another entity against which Local 3 was on strike, the Board merely followed Howard Johnson Co. v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees, 417 U.S. 249, 94 S. Ct. 2236, 41 L. Ed. 2d 46 (1974); Southport Petroleum Co. v. NLRB, 315 U.S. 100, 62 S. Ct. 452, 86 L. Ed. 718 (1942); and Goodman Piping Products, Inc. v. NLRB, 741 F.2d 10 (2d Cir.1984).

Finally, in issuing a broad cease and desist order against Local 3, the Board had abundant justification in Local 3's long history of unfair labor practices. Indeed, we publish this opinion only to render the historical record of Local 3's offenses complete. Since 1960, Local 3 has been found to violate Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act ("the Act") at least twenty-three times; Local 3, IBEW (Picker X-Ray Corp.), 128 N.L.R.B. 566 (1960); Local 3, IBEW (New York Telephone Co.), 140 N.L.R.B. 729 (1963), enf'd, 325 F.2d 561 (2d Cir.1963); Western Electric Co., 144 N.L.R.B. 1318 (1963), enf'd, 339 F.2d 145 (2d Cir.1964); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Darby Electric Corp.), 153 N.L.R.B. 717 (1965), enf'd, 362 F.2d 232 (2d Cir.1966); Local 3, IBEW (New York Telephone Co.), 193 N.L.R.B. 758 (1971), enf'd, 467 F.2d 1158 (2d Cir.1972); Local 3, IBEW (New York Telephone Co.), 197 N.L.R.B. 328 (1972), enf'd, 477 F.2d 260 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1065, 94 S. Ct. 572, 38 L. Ed. 2d 470 (1973); Local 3, IBEW (New York Telephone Co.), 197 N.L.R.B. 866 (1972); Local 3, IBEW (Madison Square Garden Center, Inc.), 202 N.L.R.B. 722 (1973); Local 3, IBEW (HyCan Electric Co. Inc.), 204 N.L.R.B. 193 (1973); Local 3, IBEW (Eastern States Electrical Contractors, Inc.), 205 N.L.R.B. 270 (1973); Local 3, IBEW (Mansfield Contracting Corp.), 205 N.L.R.B. 559 (1973); Local 3, IBEW (Mansfield Contracting Corp.), 206 N.L.R.B. 423 (1973), overruled on other grounds, 289 NLRB No. 4 (1987-1988); Local 3, IBEW (Wickham Contracting Co.), 220 N.L.R.B. 785 (1975), enf'd, 542 F.2d 860 (2d Cir.1976); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Gessin Electrical Contractors, Inc.), 224 N.L.R.B. 1484 (1976), enf'd mem., 556 F.2d 574 (2d Cir.1977); Local 3, IBEW (New York Electrical Contractors Assoc., Inc.), 244 N.L.R.B. 357 (1979); Local 3, IBEW (L.M. Ericsson Telecommunications, Inc.), 257 N.L.R.B. 1358 (1981), enf'd on consent, No. 82-4030 (2d Cir. Apr. 5, 1982); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Walter Sign Corp.), 260 N.L.R.B. 1332 (1982); Local 3, IBEW (General Dynamics Communications Co.), 264 N.L.R.B. 705 (1982), enf'd mem., 742 F.2d 1438 (2d Cir.1983); Local 3, IBEW (Northern Telecom), 265 N.L.R.B. 213 (1982), enf'd, 730 F.2d 870 (2d Cir.1984); Local 3, IBEW (Telecom Equipment Corp. of New York, Inc., 269 N.L.R.B. 124 (1984); Local 3, IBEW (Kidder Peabody & Co.), 270 N.L.R.B. 1025 (1984); Local 3, IBEW (Hunts Point Electrical Wiring Service, Inc.), 271 N.L.R.B. 1580 (1984).

Of those twenty-three, four involved Section 8(b)(7), the subsection at issue here: Local 3, Electrical Workers (Hunts Point Electrical Wiring Service, Inc.), 271 N.L.R.B. 1580 (1984); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Walter Sign Corp.), 260 N.L.R.B. 1332 (1982); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Gessin Electrical Contractors, Inc.), 224 N.L.R.B. 1484 (1976), enf'd mem. 556 F.2d 574 (2d Cir.1977); Local 3, Electrical Workers (Darby Electric Corp.), 153 N.L.R.B. 717 (1965), enf'd, 362 F.2d 232 (2d Cir.1966).

It was this pattern of misconduct that led us, four terms ago, expressly to reprimand Local 3 as "an incorrigible secondary boycotter with a two-decade-long history of secondary boycott activity," NLRB v. Local 3, Int'l Broth. of Elec. Wkrs. (Northern Telecom), 730 F.2d 870, 880 (2d Cir.1984), and to enforce a broad cease and desist order against violations of Section 8(b)(4). It is the same pattern of misconduct that requires the enforcement of another broad cease and desist order here.

As we stated in enforcing the Board's broad Section 8(b)(4) order,

the NLRB has a duty to impose "broader and more stringent remedies against a recidivist than those usually invoked against a first offender."

(Northern Telecom ), 730 F.2d at 881 (citation omitted). The same language is appropriate here, for Local 3 is not only a recidivist as a secondary boycotter but also as a Section 8(b)(7) violator. "[W]ith its well-demonstrated proclivity for unlawful ... pressures, [Local 3] is hardly in a position to complain that the order imposed is too broad." Id.

Enforcement granted.