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

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

This case comes to us on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States. We had held in United Retail Workers Union, Local 881 v. NLRB, 774 F.2d 752 (7th Cir.1985), that the National Labor Relations Board did not exceed its statutory authority when it required a union to allow nonunion members of the bargaining unit represented by that union to vote when the union was considering merger or affiliation with another union. The Supreme Court vacated our decision, United Retail Workers Union, Local 881 v. NLRB, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 1787, 90 L.Ed.2d 333 (1986), and remanded…