National Labor Relations Board v. General Tube Company

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

The National Labor Relations Board petitions herein for enforcement of its order requiring respondent to engage in collective bargaining with a union. This union (the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, AFL-CIO) had won a hairline victory in a consent election in respondent’s plant by a vote of 33 to 32 and had been certified collective bargaining agent by the NLRB.

Before this court the entire argument pertains to the eligibility to vote of a female employee, Lois Ware, whose ballot was challenged by…