National Labor Relations Board v. Brooke Industries Incorporated

POSNER, Circuit Judge (in chambers).

This is Round 2 of an absurd (as it seems to me) dispute between the Labor Board and me. In Round 1, the Board had submitted for my signature a consent judgment, which I refused to sign because it contained a prohibition (against the employer’s “advancing harsh and vindictive bargaining proposals”) that I considered excessively vague. See NLRB v. Brooke Industries, Inc., 867 F.2d 434 (7th Cir.1989) (Posner, J., in chambers). Having taken the position that I had no power to refuse to sign a consent judgment, no matter what it provided, the Board in its…