369 U.S. 736 (1962) Cited 710 times 29 Legal Analyses
Holding that "an employer's unilateral change in conditions of employment under negotiation" is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act because "it is a circumvention of the duty to negotiate"
In NLRB v. Bachrodt Chevrolet Co., 468 F.2d 963 (7th Cir. 1972), vacated and remanded, 411 U.S. 912, 93 S.Ct. 1547, 36 L.Ed.2d 304, on remand, 205 N.L.R.B. 784 (1973), enforced, 515 F.2d 512 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 927, 96 S.Ct. 274, 46 L.Ed.2d 255 (1975), the court approved the Board's determination of unlawful unilateral action when an employer manifested a purpose to hire his predecessor's employees without contemporaneously advising them of plans to change working conditions and thereafter fixed working conditions different from those of the predecessor.