Case: Labor Relations/Refusal to Bargain (N.L.R.B.)

The National Labor Relations Board upheld the dismissal of a charge brought under the National Labor Relations Act that Stericycle had refused to bargain collectively in good faith by refusing to disclose its collective bargaining session notes to the union. The board majority affirmed the ruling of the administrative law judge that collective bargaining notes were exempt from the general information disclosure rule under the NLRA, and refused to reconsider its precedent standard for making parties’ notes from contract bargaining generally exempt from disclosure. The dissent argued that the exemption creates practical problems, saying that such notes “are a critical ...