National Labor Relations Board v. Gulfmont Hotel Company

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

This petition by the Board for enforcement of its order requiring good faith bargaining for a contract raises the single issue whether substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the Board’s determination that respondent’s expressed doubt that the bargaining unit majority still wished to be represented by the local unions, 1 was not supported by a reasonable basis for doubting the unions’ majority.

It is well settled that in the absence of special circumstances a union’s majority status is irrebuttably presumed for a period of one year following the union’s…