National Labor Relations Board v. Century Oxford Mfg. Corp.

The only important question in this case arises upon these facts. The Board conducted an election of the respondent’s employees on November 19, 1941, and a union, affiliated with the C. I. O., was elected by a vote of sixty to nineteen, as the representative of the appropriate bargaining unit: i.e. all the “production” employees. The regional director certified the results of this election to the Board on the 22nd; and the respondent began negotiations with the union. While these were in progress, several employees circulated a petition at the end of December, purporting to repudiate the…