United Retail Workers Union Local 881 v. National Labor Relations Board

PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, United Retail Workers Union Local 881, petitions this court to review an order of the National Labor Relations Board (the Board), which held that the employer, May Department Stores (the Employer) did not commit an unfair labor practice by refusing to bargain with petitioner. Petitioner is the entity created by a merger agreement between the United Retail Workers Union (URW) and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). The Employer’s refusal to bargain followed a vote by the URW members of the bargaining unit to merge *754with the…