In Lozano Enterprises v. NLRB, supra, 327 F.2d 814, a complete tentative agreement was reached; this was revised and then signed by the company's president but retained, until after the certification year expired, by its labor consultant, with a misrepresentation on his part to the union that the agreement had not been signed.
In F. W. Means Co. v. N.L.R.B., 377 F.2d 683 (7th Cir. 1967), this court held that although the technical rules comprising contract law do not necessarily control all decisions in labor-management cases, the normal rules of offer and acceptance are generally determinative of the existence of a collective bargaining agreement.
Approving trial examiner's finding that union representative's failure to tell employer that he was bound by master contract was not a waiver of the employer's purported withdrawal