National Labor Relations Board v. Mississippi Power & Light Company

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) petitions for judicial enforcement of its order requiring Mississippi Power & Light Co. (“MP & L”) to bargain with the union representing employees added to a bargaining unit by a representation election held during the term of a collective bargaining agreement between MP & L and the union. MP & L maintains that the order should not be enforced because the NLRB allegedly acted irrationally in failing to find that an existing collective bargaining agreement barred the representation election under the Board’s contract bar rule. We…