Avondale Industries, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Avondale Industries, Inc., a shipbuilding company, engaged in a short but hotly-contested union representation election with the New Orleans Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO (“the Union”), which was vying for a bargaining unit of approximately 4,000 employees. The issue that is determinative on appeal is whether the National Labor Relations Board enforced voter identification procedures that sufficiently protected the integrity of the election. Under the circumstances presented here — a very large work force, the NLRB’s foreknowledge that a substantial number of the…