NLRB Hits Employer With Onerous Remedies

On June 8, in Columbus Electric Cooperative, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 89, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision that hit an employer with a set of enhanced remedies. To begin, the NLRB held the employer engaged in bad faith bargaining during negotiations for an initial contract with a union. The Board based this holding on findings that the employer failed to timely respond to the union’s requests to begin negotiations, insisted on recording the initial bargaining session, refused to bargain pending resolution of unfair labor practice charges, made overly board and regressive proposals that would have undermined the representative role of the union, and failed to provide information requested by the union.