Opinion ID: 717542
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Unilateral Implementation of Contract Terms

Text: 30 When a company and a union reach a good faith impasse in their negotiations, the company may implement the terms of the last proposal it put on the bargaining table. American Fed'n of Television & Radio Artists v. NLRB, 395 F.2d 622, 624 (D.C.Cir.1968). In this case, however, the Board found that the Company was precluded from making unilateral changes only because the parties had reached impasse in the context of serious unremedied unfair labor practices that affect[ed] the negotiations, 315 N.L.R.B. at 911--namely, the discharge of the ten employees who went on strike after hearing Robbins's statements. Having overturned the predicate violations, therefore, we must also reverse the Board's conclusion that the Company refused to bargain in good faith, in violation of §§ 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(5), when it declared an impasse and acted accordingly.