National Labor Relations Board v. Wkrg-Tv, Inc.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this case we are once again faced with the difficult task of determining the propriety of a bargaining order when a union loses a representation election only after the employer’s alleged unfair labor practices dissipate the card majority claimed by the union. Although the Supreme Court clarified many of the problems arising in this particular area of labor law in N.L.R.B. v. Gissel Packing Co., Inc., 1969, 395 U.S. 575, 89 S.Ct. 1918, 23 L.Ed.2d 547, the great number of cases since Gissel illustrate the many gray areas that were left to be decided. See generally,…