Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission

The following issues are presented on this appeal:(1) Whether respondent’s economically motivated decision to mechanize a portion of its operation so affects terms and conditions of employment that it is a mandatory subject of collective bargaining under secs. 111.02 (5), and 111.06 (1) (d), Stats.;(2) Whether the respondent’s failure to bargain the effects of the decision to mechanize constitutes a refusal to bargain under sec. 111.06 (1) (d), Stats.; and(3) Whether the order of the WERC requiring the respondent to cease and desist from refusing to bargain collectively, to establish…