National Labor Relations Board v. General Electric Company, and International Union of Electrical, Radio, and MacHine Workers, Afl-Cio, Intervenor

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

Almost ten years after the events that gave rise to this controversy, we are *739called upon to determine whether an employer may be guilty of bad faith bargaining, though he reaches an agreement with the union, albeit on the company’s terms. We must also decide if the company committed three specific violations of the duty to bargain by failing to furnish information requested by the union, by attempting to deal separately with IUE locals, and by presenting a personal accident insurance program on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

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THE PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

In the wake of…