National Labor Relations Board v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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366 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions

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1. ““To Our Employees: “Next Friday will be an important day for all of us. What I am about to tell you now I would have preferred to say personally, but because of the difficulty of getting all of the shift workers together, I am forced to do the next best thing and that is to write to you. “On Friday there will be an election to determine whether you want the American Federation of Labor to have the right to represent you in regard to wages, working conditions, etc., or whether you want to continue the way we have been doing. Your Company recognizes the right of every employee to join any union that he may wish to join and such membership will not affect his position with the Company. On the other hand, we feel that it should be made clear to you that it is not necessary for you to join any labor organization if you do not want to. This election will be by secret ballot. No one can possibly find out how you vote. The election will be decided by the majority of those voting, so BE SURE TO VOTE, even if it happens to be your day off, or you are on vacation. “Some of you may wonder if the fact that you signed some card distributed by the union requires that you vote for the union. The answer is no. You have the right to vote exactly as your conscience tolls you to at the time that you are voting. Let me repeat again. The ballot is secret and no one can possibly know how you voted. “I do not know what you have been promised by others. I do know that for over twenty years we have en”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peter J. Schweitzer, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

2. ““1. Cease and desist from: “(a) Discouraging membership in International Association of Machinists, District No. 9, or in any other labor organization of its employees, by discharging or refusing to reinstate any of its employees, or in any other manner discriminating iñ regard to their hire and tenure of employment, or any term or condition of their employment; “(b) In any other manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing its employees in the exercise of the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities for the purposes of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act. “2. Take the following affirmative action, which the Board finds will effectuate the policies of the Act: “(a) Offer to Marie Noeth immediate and full reinstatement to her former or a substantially equivalent position, without prejudice to her seniority and other rights and privileges; “(b) Make whole Marie Noeth for any loss of pay she may have suffered by reason of the respondent’s discrimination against her, by payment to her of a sum of money equal to the amount which she normally would have earned as wages during the period from the date of the respondent’s discrimination against her to the date of the Intermediate Report herein and during the period from the date of this Order to the date of the respondent's offer o”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. National Labor Relations Board v. Laister-Kauffmann Aircraft Corp.

3. “[i]n determining whether the Company actually interfered with, restrained, and coerced its employees the Board has a right to look at what the Company has said as well as what it has done”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Uaw v. National Labor Relations Board, Uarco Incorporated, Intervenor