Holding an interest arbitration clause is a nonmandatory subject of bargaining and cannot be included over a party's objection in a collective bargaining agreement resulting from interest arbitration
Holding that notwithstanding the expiration of the original labor contract, the employer was bound by a renewal contract issued by the arbitration panel according to the interest arbitration clause
In Huggins Sheet Metal and in Williams, the parties had reached an impasse in negotiations on the new agreement, and the unions sought interest arbitration under their respective collective bargaining agreements.
In Fairmont Foods Co. and Associated Shower Door Co., Inc., both supra, the additional circumstances were that the union negotiated separate contracts with three of the members of the multi-employer unit during the impasse.
Finding termination of letter of assent effective where an employer wrote "to advise, 150 days in advance, of [the company's] intention to exercise [its] option to cancel [its] contract with local union"
In N.L.R.B. v. Spun-Jee Corporation, 385 F.2d 379 (2d Cir.), it was found that the union was clearly put on notice of the intended shutdown of the plant and its removal to a different state and that the union had thus waived its right to bargain.
In NLRB v. Callier, 630 F.2d 595 (8th Cir. 1980), the court indicated that the Board's rules may be too narrow and that interim agreements coupled with strikes might well fragment a bargaining unit so as to justify withdrawal.