369 U.S. 736 (1962) Cited 712 times 29 Legal Analyses
Holding that "an employer's unilateral change in conditions of employment under negotiation" is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act because "it is a circumvention of the duty to negotiate"
Holding that while an employer is not obligated to discharge permanent replacements to make room for returning economic strikers, the employer must place the former strikers on a preferential recall list
In Neptune Water Meter Co. v. NLRB, 551 F.2d 568 (4th Cir. 1977) the Court of Appeals held that while discriminatory motivation need only be a factor in the discharge of an employee for the NLRB to find an unfair labor practice, "an unfair labor practice may be found only if there is a basis in the record for a finding that the employee would not have been discharged..except for the fact of his union activity."