National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner/cross v. Memc Electronic Materials, Inc., Respondent/cross

LOKEN, Chief Judge.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (the IAM) petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to represent the maintenance workers employed by MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (MEMC), at its silicon wafer manufacturing plant in St. Peter’s, Missouri. MEMC and the IAM then entered into a Stipulated Election Agreement (the Agreement) defining the collective-bargaining unit as consisting of MEMC’s maintenance employees and excluding all other employees. Less than one week before the election, the IAM filed a second petition to represent MEMC’s…