National Labor Relations Board v. Athens Mfg. Co.

The National Labor Relations Board found that the respondent had failed to bargain collectively in good faith with the Union and that this had resulted in a strike of respondent’s employees on August 29, 1945.

The record leaves in no doubt that respondent was definitely opposed to granting certain demands the Union considered essential in an agreement, and that just as definitely the Union was determined to enforce these demands. If the record showed only this, that is, that respondent was as persistent in standing by what it considered essential in a fair agreement as the Union was in…