National Labor Relations Board v. Aladdin Hotel Corporation, D/B/A Aladdin Hotel

The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of an order requiring the employer to bargain with a union certified as a bargaining agent, after a board supervised election. The Board’s decisions certifying the union and ordering the employer to bargain are reported at 229 NLRB 499 (1977) and 232 NLRB 153 (1977), respectively. We decline to enforce the order for reasons given below.

In September 1975 a union attempted to organize the clerical employees of the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. 1 It was a policy of the union to announce a reduction in its initiation fee from $50…