465 U.S. 513 (1984) Cited 1,161 times 22 Legal Analyses
Holding that the failure of Congress to draft an exclusion for certain collective bargaining agreements in 11 U.S.C. § 365 indicates that the provision applies to all such agreements, in light of the previous use of such an exclusion by Congress in 11 U.S.C. § 1167
375 U.S. 405 (1964) Cited 213 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that the Act “prohibits not only intrusive threats and promises but also conduct immediately favorable to employees which is undertaken with the express purpose of impinging upon their freedom of choice for or against unionization and is reasonably calculated to have that effect.”
Holding that "hallmark" violations of NLRA "include such employer misbehavior as the closing of a plant or threats of plant closure or loss of employment, the grant of benefits to employees, or the reassignment, demotion or discharge of union adherents" and lesser violations "include such employer misconduct as interrogating employees regarding their union sympathies, holding out a `carrot' of promised benefits, expressing anti-union resolve, threatening that unionization will result in decreased benefits, or suggesting that physical force might be used to exclude the union"
Finding a prima facie case for overturning an election in which a priest, who was not a union agent, stated that workers should vote for the union because the company's owners were Jewish and "Jewish people are rich and we are poor and killing ourselves for them"
Holding that an employer seeking to set aside an election bears the “heavy burden” of showing that infractions “materially affected the election results”
Affirming bargaining order because the egregious actions of the employer "constitute a more than ample basis for a sound inference of future interference and/or enduring aftereffects"