Case: Labor Relations/Decertification (N.L.R.B.)

A scrap-metal recycling industry machine manufacturer unlawfully influenced its employees to file to decertify the union representing them. The NLRB majority found that the employer engaged in a campaign of severe and pervasive unfair labor practices, causing the employees’ subsequent disaffection with the union. The dissent argued that there was no causal nexus between any possible unlawful employer actions and the filing of the decertification petition.