Word: nlrb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambion refuses to comply with an NLRB order requiring it to bargain, the case could go to a United States Court of Appeals. The company could be found in contempt of the Labor Board's order. The court might require Cambion to pay back wages to workers for the time it had refused to bargain...
There is still a union at Cambion, and Local 262 will continue to try to negotiate the wage clauses that opened April 14. And on November 17, the NLRB will begin prosecuting Cambion for refusing to bargain in good faith. There is a fair likelihood that Cambion will be found guilty once again, but probably only after months of appeals and legal delays. And even then, only the traditionally light sanctions stipulated in the National Labor Relations Act will be imposed: posting of notices in the factory saying the company has bargained in bad faith and will now change...
Contrary to a company vice-president's statement at a City Council meeting last week to the effect that Cambion had a close "family-like" relationship with its workers before the strike began April 14, the fact is that two years ago the NLRB ruled against the company for firing two workers who supported the unionizing drive at the plant at that time...
Frank Lyman '31, Cambion's wealthy owner, knows time is on his side. Although the NLRB is scheduled to begin prosecuting Cambion for refusing to bargain in good faith on November 17, more than six months after the union first issued its complaint, any decision against the company is certain to be appealed--a process which will probably take several more months. In the meantime the strike may be broken. And in the final analysis, the weak sanctions against offending companies provided for in the National Labor Relations Act are not much of a deterrent...
...years ago the NLRB ruled against the company in a case involving two Cambion workers who were illegally fired for participating in a union organizing drive