International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Industrial Products Division v. National Labor Relations Board

CROCKER, District Judge.

This petition for review of a final order of the National Labor Relations Board and cross-petition for enforcement raise the question of whether or not a company employer can defend an unfair labor practice charge for failing to bargain collectively by asserting that the employee representative was not validly elected in that two employees, through company inadvertence, were not given an opportunity to vote during their working hours as were other employees, where the votes of these two employees could have affected the outcome of the election.

The NLRB held that the…