Labor Board v. Erie Resistor Corp.

Upholding Board decision prohibiting employer from granting super-seniority to strike-breakers because "[s]uper-seniority renders future bargaining difficult, if not impossible"

Republic Aviation Corp. v. Board

Finding an absence of special circumstances where employer failed to introduce evidence of "unusual circumstances involving their plants."

Labor Board v. Babcock Wilcox Co.

Holding that the Board could not require an employer to allow non-employee union representatives to enter the employer's parking lot

Ramsey v. N.L.R.B

In Ramsey v. NLRB, 327 F.2d 784 (7th Cir.) cert. denied, 377 U.S. 1003, 84 S.Ct. 1938, 12 L.Ed.2d 1052 (1964), the Seventh Circuit declared that "[t]here is no statutory or constitutional right to be present at an arbitration hearing," rejecting the employee's contention that his rights were denied since he was not given notice of the arbitration hearing and did not appear there. The court specifically noted that the facts showed "that the company fully and adequately defended [the employee's] rights at the hearing."

Serv-Air, Inc. v. N.L.R.B

Applying special circumstances approach to rule banning the wearing of multiple badges

Fabri-Tek, Incorporated v. N.L.R.B

Upholding employer's objection to employees wearing IBEW vari-vue buttons when employer did not ban all buttons

N.L.R.B. v. Harrah's Club

In NLRB v. Harrah's Club, 337 F.2d 177 (9th Cir. 1964) (Harrah's Club), we reviewed a National Labor Relations Board (Board) order that concluded that section 7 of the NLRA, 29 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1), granted a casino's public contact uniformed employees a right to wear union buttons or pins, even though the wearing of the union buttons was not part of any concerted campaign to organize the employees, promote collective bargaining, or gain better working conditions.

Caterpillar Tractor v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Stating that employer can prohibit employees from wearing buttons emblazoned with the slogan "Don't be a Scab" because of slogan's inherent tension to incite unrest and resentment; however, the restriction does not include "passive inoffensive advertisement of organizational aims and interests . . . which in no way interferes with discipline and production"

N.L.R.B. v. Whiting Milk Corp.

In Whiting, we construed a clause in a multi-employer collective bargaining agreement which provided in substance that "in the event of acquisition by a signatory company of another Union company the seniority of the Union employees of the latter carried over into the acquiring company."

N.L.R.B. v. Floridan Hotel of Tampa, Inc.

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"