Opinion ID: 185589
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Refusal to Provide Information

Text: 29 The Board determined that the Union had a right to certain information solely because that information was deemed relevant to the enforcement and administration of the 1990 Agreement. Decision at 6. The Board did not explicitly state that this aspect of its decision was dependent upon its prior holding that the Agreement concerns a mandatory subject of bargaining, but that is how we understand its reasoning. So, it seems, do the parties. Neither the Board nor the Union argues that Pall's refusal to provide information was an unfair labor practice even if the Agreement concerns only a permissive subject of bargaining. On the contrary, the Union implies that it was not: Because the agreement addressed a mandatory subject, it follows that the Union had a right to information needed to utilize the agreement. Our holding that Pall's revocation of the 1990 Agreement was not an unfair labor practice therefore requires us also to reject the Board's conclusion that Pall violated the Act when it refused to provide the information requested by the Union.