Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company petitions for review of an *10order of the National Labor Relations Board finding violations of §§ 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act,1 based upon the company’s refusal to bargain with the United Steelworkers of America following the Board’s certification of the Steelworkers as the exclusive bargaining representative of the company’s production and maintenance employees. We deny the company’s petition to set aside the election. Nevertheless, because we think the Board erred in certifying the Steelworkers without conducting a…