414 U.S. 270 (1973) Cited 123 times 1 Legal Analyses
Noting that although an employee may not be "legally bound to vote for the union and has not promised to do so in any formal sense" some "would feel obliged " to cast a union vote after having signed a union recognition slip
In NLRB v. R. Dakin Co., 477 F.2d 492, 493 (9 Cir. 1973), the court set aside the Board's bargaining order. It characterized the Ideal Electric rule as "simply an evidentiary device calculated to render irrelevant upon a post election contest, conduct `too remote' to have interfered with the employees' free choice guaranteed by Sec. 7 of the Act."