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Article: Replacement workers. (Supreme Court decision on withdrawal of union recognition collective bargaining rights for replacement workers) (Significant decisions in labor cases)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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Replacement workers
An employer must "bargain collectively," or negotiate, with its employees' union, once the union is recognized as the employees' exclusive bargaining representative.1 In general, the employer may not be relieved of this obligation by withdrawing recognition of the union, unless it can show either that the union is not supported by a majority of bargaining unit employees or that the employer has a good-faith doubt about the union's continued majority status. In NLRB v. Curtin Matheson Scientific, Inc.,' the Supreme Court recently upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that an employer's good-faith doubt about the union's majority ...