National Labor Relations Board v. Charles D. Bonanno Linen Service, Inc.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to § 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 160(e), the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) petitions for enforcement of a decision1 *27which it concedes is contrary to the pronouncements of five circuit courts. At issue is whether the occurrence of an impasse in the course of collective bargaining enables an employer unilaterally to withdraw from a multiemployer bargaining unit and thereafter negotiate with the union on an individual basis. Rejecting the various court decisions indicating otherwise as misguided, the Board concluded that an…