National Labor Relations Board v. Leland Stanford Junior University

The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) seeks enforcement of its order requiring Stanford University to provide Service Employees Local No. 715 (the union), which represents approximately 1,400 of Stanford’s 5,000 employees, with information pertaining to certain non-union employees. The Board’s order affirming the Administrative Law Judge’s decision is reported at 262 NLRB 19 (1982). We conclude that there is substantial evidence to support the findings and conclusions upon which the order is based. We also conclude that the Board did not abuse its discretion in attempting to remedy unfair labor practices. We therefore enforce the Board’s order.

Under Section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158 (a)(5), an employer is required to supply the union that represents its employees with information relevant to the union’s collective bargaining duties. Detroit Edison Co. v. N.L.R.B., 440 U.S. 301, 303 , 99 S.Ct. 1123, 1125 , 59 L.Ed.2d 333 (1979). The employer’s obligation to disclose extends to information relevant both to the union’s duty to administer existing collective bargaining agreements and to the union’s responsibility to negotiate future…