Ray-O-Vac Co. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board

Ray-O-Vac Company (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘company”) is a corporation engaged in the production of batteries at Madison, Wisconsin. Since 1937 it engaged in collective bargaining- with Federal Labor Union No. 19587, A. F. L. (hereinafter referred to as the “Federal Union”), as the representative for most of' the company’s employees, excepting the employees of its experimental toolroom, who have not in the past béen represented by any collective-bargaining agent. Shortly prior to February 15, 1945, the company and the Federal Union entered into a contract for the period from February…