Court Opinion

ID: 9462766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:49:46.373879+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:46.400784
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent.
Once the company unilaterally changed the terms of the contract, the stipulation not to bargain during the life of the agreement was no longer operative and thus the union’s efforts to bargain did not constitute a violation of the contract as the majority opinion would in effect hold.
At the most, the question of fact as to whether there had been an effective waiver which covered the instant effort of the union to bargain should be submitted to the Board, for we do not have sufficient wisdom to solve a problem such as this one which we have raised and a problem which is peculiarly the task of the administrative tribunal.