H. K. Porter Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that the NLRB is "without power to compel a company or a union to agree to any substantive contractual provision of a collective-bargaining agreement."

Labor Board v. American Ins. Co.

Holding the degree of discretion in a CBA "is an issue for determination across the bargaining table, not by the Board"

N.L.R.B. v. Herman Sausage Co

In NLRB v. Herman Sausage Co., 275 F.2d 229 (5th Cir. 1960), our circuit held that "generally speaking, the freedom to grant a unilateral wage increase "is limited to cases where there has been a bona fide but unsuccessful attempt to reach an agreement with the union, or where the union bears the guilt for having broken off relations.' NLRB v. Andrew Jergens Co., 9 Cir., 1949, 175 F.2d 130, 136, cert. denied, 338 U.S. 827, 70 S.Ct. 76, 94 L.Ed. 503.

N.L.R.B. v. A-1 King Size Sandwiches, Inc.

Listing mandatory subjects of bargaining

NLRB v. Independent Ass'n of Steel Fabricators

Establishing a rebuttable presumption of majority status for an incumbent union that had been a party with the employer to a previous collective bargaining agreement

Continental Insurance Company v. N.L.R.B

In Continental Insurance Co. v. NLRB, 495 F.2d 44 (2d Cir. 1974), a finding of bad faith was predicated in part on (1) the company's refusal to recognize the union as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative unless the union agreed not to organize or represent other company employees, (2) the company's insistence that arbitrators of grievances be picked exclusively by the company and (3) wage, vacation and severance pay proposals substantially less generous than the benefits provided to employees before the union was certified.

N.L.R.B. v. Koenig Iron Works, Inc.

Holding that employers "must come forward with easily verifiable and unambiguous evidence supporting their belief that their employees have rejected the incumbent union as bargaining agent"

N.L.R.B. v. Holmes Tuttle Broadway Ford

In NLRB v. Holmes Tuttle Broadway Ford, Inc., 465 F.2d 717 (9th Cir. 1972), the court found substantial evidence of bad faith where the Company, after months of bargaining leading to the Union's acceptance of its proposals, raised spurious objections to its own proposals, and then stated that it would only sign a contract of seven weeks duration.

Omaha Typographical U., No. 190 v. N.L.R.B