National Labor Relations Board v. Industrial Wire Products Corporation

Charging that it “was pointless to continue arriving at agreements [which] the company [Industrial Wire Products Corporation] would not sign,” the Union discontinued further participation in collective bargaining negotiations which had spanned a period of some seven months. The Union’s consternation was vented upon the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) which found that during the course of the protracted negotiations the Company had violated Section 8(a) (5) and (1) of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), 29 U. S.C. § 158(a) (5) and (1), by refusing to bargain in good faith with the Union and by refusing to execute a written contract incorporating an agreement reached with the Union. Pursuant to Section 10(e) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. § 160 (e), the Board has petitioned for enforcement of its order directing the Company, at the Union’s request, to execute a contract which embodies the substantive provisions of an agreement reached on June 19, 1968 (see below), or failing that, to bargain in good faith for a new agreement.

Following the Union’s election and certification as the bargaining representative of “an appropriate unit” of the Company’s employees,…