356 U.S. 342 (1958) Cited 296 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding employer's insistence on a ballot clause was an unfair labor practice under § 8 because it was a non-mandatory subject of bargaining and it "substantially modifies the collective-bargaining system provided for in the statute by weakening the independence of the 'representative' chosen by the employees. It enables the employer, in effect, to deal with its employees rather than with their statutory representative."
Holding review of the Board's decision to apply a new rule of law retrospectively is deferential and that the Board's ruling will be disturbed only if it wreaks manifest injustice
Holding that "general legal principles of contract formation . . . hold that counteroffers, rejections and a subsequent change of relative bargaining positions in favor of the offeror constitute withdrawal of the offer and that a purported acceptance thereafter is wholly ineffective"
Finding union to have violated NLRA by "insisting that final settlements of the collective-bargaining contracts covering separate units of employees of Ohio Power, Central Operating, and Wheeling Electric be withheld until final agreement was reached between the Respondents and the Employers in all the units in which the bargaining was taking place."