Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This case comes up upon a petition by the employer to review a “cease and desist” order of the Labor Board; and upon a petition of the Board for an order of enforcement. The conduct which the Board found unlawful principally concerned the change from a “Plan” of collective bargaining, instituted before the National Labor Relations Act was passed, to the formation in its place at the respondent’s Bloomfield plant, of an unaffiliated union, called the “Independent”. The company’s position is that the “Independent” was the result of the spontaneous and free agreement of…