Radio Officers v. Labor Board

Holding that "[t]he policy of the Act is to insulate employees' jobs from their organizational rights"

Labor Board v. Virginia Power Co.

In NLRB v. Virginia Electric Power Co., 314 U.S. 469, 477, 62 S.Ct. 344, 348, 86 L.Ed. 348 (1941), the Supreme court concluded that the Wagner Act could not be interpreted to prohibit an employer from exercising his First Amendment right to express his views to employees on the merits of unionization, provided the expression was neither coercive nor part of a coercive course of conduct.

Joy Silk Mills v. National Labor Rel. Board

In Joy Silk the Court held that when an employer could have no doubt as to the majority status or when an employer refuses recognition of a union "due to a desire to gain time and to take action to dissipate the union's majority, the refusal is no longer justifiable and constitutes a violation of the duty to bargain set forth in section 8(a)(5) of the Act".

Bourne v. N.L.R.B

In Bourne, we held that interrogation which does not contain express threats is not an unfair labor practice unless certain "fairly severe standards" are met showing that the very fact of interrogation was coercive.

N.L.R.B. v. Camco, Incorporated

Holding that knowledge of union activities could be inferred from the fact that an employer discharged eleven of sixteen union adherents without discharging any of its remaining seventy-four employees

N.L.R.B. v. Johnnie's Poultry Co.

In N.L.R.B. v. Johnnie's Poultry Co., 8 Cir., 344 F.2d 617, we recognized that an employer has no vested right to insist that union representation be established by a Board conducted election but we further held that an employer acting in good faith belief that a union lacked majority representation was not required to recognize and bargain with the union until such doubt was resolved.

Snow v. N.L.R.B

In Snow, both the employer and the Union chose the clergyman who ran the check and he compared signatures, not just names.

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Kobritz

Upholding an NLRB departure from a policy of declining to assert jurisdiction, on the ground that "the Board had jurisdiction all the time"

National L. Rel. B. v. Sunrise L. Trim

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Trimfit of Calif

Affirming an NLRB order requiring reinstatement of pro-Union former employees

Section 151 - Findings and declaration of policy

Finding that "protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce" and declaring a policy of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining"