/f4th/141/1279

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2025-06-27

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Case and law context

29 U.S.C. § 158(a)

Role: applied; posture: 2025 review of Board finding of surface bargaining based on combined no-strike, arbitration-elimination and other proposals.; result: claimant-won; claim: (a)

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/f4th/141/1279 — Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2025Alternative breaches of applicable collective-bargaining dutiessatisfied
Counted merits instance
applied / merits

basis: proved; claim: (a); theory: combined bargaining proposals; subject: theory=combined bargaining proposals

The positive parent refusal-to-bargain holding records unlawful surface bargaining, not compliance with the good-faith duty. The court evaluates the combination and persistence of proposals, not a per-se obligation to concede a particular term.
surface-bargaining/no-strike-without-binding-arbitration
The Hospital’s proposal upset that balance by pairing a broad no-strike clause with the elimination of binding arbitration.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: supports; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

After introducing the arbitration-eliminating proposal on March 29, 2017, the Hospital revised its discipline proposal on May 25 to align with a mediation-only model.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: supports; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Despite repeated objections from the Union, the Hospital maintained that position through June 7, 2018.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: supports; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Overall, we uphold the Board’s determinations that the Hospital’s conduct amounted to bad faith surface bargaining in violation of Sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(5) of the NLRA.
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Evidence kind: held; polarity: not recorded; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Court interpretations recorded from this case