Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union v. National Labor Relations Board

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we are called upon to review a series of orders by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”). Over the objection of the Board’s General Counsel, the NLRB approved private settlement agreements disposing of certain unfair labor practice charges against TNS, Inc. (the “Company”). The settlement agreements were signed by TNS and fifty-six individual employees, all of whom were members of a bargaining unit represented by the petitioner, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, AFL-*371CIO (the “Union”). The Union neither…