National Labor Relations Board v. Lee Office Equipment

The Board seeks enforcement of its remedial Order issued in response to the employer’s refusal to bargain in good faith as it is required to do by the National Labor Relations Act. We concur in the Board’s conclusion that the employer breached this statutory duty and we, therefore, enforce the Board’s Order.

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On April 11, 1975, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) conducted a representation election for a bargaining unit consisting of approximately ten of Lee Office Equipment’s (Company) employees. As a result, a local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Union) was certified as the unit employees’ collective bargaining representative. Negotiations between the Company and Union commenced shortly after certification and continued sporadically through September 1975.

On some undetermined date, employee Woolf, a unit member, wrote to the Union stating that he and his fellow employees no longer desired to be represented by the Union. On August 15, 1975, employee Collier, another member of the bargaining unit, wrote to the Union indicating that he did not desire to be represented by the Union. Finally, on September 16,1975, employees Lentz, Cash and Woolf, all of…