Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Company v. National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board found that the Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Company, hereafter the Company, had violated § 8(a) (5) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a) (5), and entered a cease and desist order. The Company petitions to set the order aside. The Board found that the Com pany had refused to bargain collectively in that it refused to give a negotiator, whom it had appointed to represent it in the bargaining sessions, sufficient authority to engage in give-and-take collective bargaining, which the Board thinks the law requires. The Board ordered the Company to designate “as representative for the purposes of negotiation one possessing authority to reach understanding with the Union and if an understanding is reached to embody the understanding in a signed agreement.” It also affirmed the Trial Examiner’s finding that the Company had violated §8(a) (5) by unilaterally changing working conditions, and ordered the Company to include in a notice required to be posted a statement that it would not violate the Act “by unilaterally changing working conditions.”

The Company maintains its principal office and place of business at Summit, Illinois. It also…