§

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

200 N.L.R.B. 667 (N.L.R.B. 1972)
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

18 Cited authorities

  1. Republic Aviation Corp. v. Board

    324 U.S. 793 (1945)   Cited 495 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Finding an absence of special circumstances where employer failed to introduce evidence of "unusual circumstances involving their plants."

  2. Drivers Union v. Meadowmoor Co.

    312 U.S. 287 (1941)   Cited 382 times
    Holding an injunction banning picketing was "justified only by the violence that induced it and only so long as it counteracts a continuing intimidation"

  3. Labor Bd. v. Washington Aluminum Co.

    370 U.S. 9 (1962)   Cited 206 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that certain employee conduct crosses the line from protected activity to "indefensible" conduct that loses NLRA protections

  4. Labor Board v. Fansteel Corp.

    306 U.S. 240 (1939)   Cited 281 times
    In Fansteel, the Board awarded reinstatement with backpay to employees who engaged in a "sit down strike" that led to confrontation with local law enforcement officials.

  5. Labor Board v. Electrical Workers

    346 U.S. 464 (1953)   Cited 125 times   41 Legal Analyses
    Upholding discharge where employees publicly disparaged quality of employer's product, with no discernible relationship to pending labor dispute

  6. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Thor Power Tool Co.

    351 F.2d 584 (7th Cir. 1965)   Cited 68 times
    Concluding that "when the entire record is considered there was substantial evidence to support the Board's finding that [employee's] discharge was the result of his having presented a grievance to the management" even though employee was overheard referring to company's superintendent as "the horse's ass" and was thereafter summarily discharged

  7. Crown Central Petroleum Corp. v. N.L.R.B

    430 F.2d 724 (5th Cir. 1970)   Cited 40 times
    In Crown Central Petroleum Corp. v. NLRB, 430 F.2d 724 (5th Cir. 1970), which the Board cites, the Fifth Circuit focussed on the context of the misconduct as the key to deciding whether the misconduct was protected by the Act.

  8. Joanna Cotton Mills v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

    176 F.2d 749 (4th Cir. 1949)   Cited 60 times
    Holding that circulation of a petition by an employee for the removal of a foreman against whom the employee held a personal grudge was not protected activity

  9. Indiana Gear Works v. N.L.R.B

    371 F.2d 273 (7th Cir. 1967)   Cited 23 times
    Posting of ridiculing cartoons merely part of pattern of habitual sarcastic reflections

  10. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Illinois Tool Works

    153 F.2d 811 (7th Cir. 1946)   Cited 47 times
    Noting that the test for violations of sec. 8, now codified as sec. 8, of the NLRA is whether "the employer engaged in conduct which, it may reasonably be said, tends to interfere with the free exercise of employee rights under the Act," and that actual or successful coercion need not be shown in order for the Board to find a violation