United States Fourth Circuit

An employer does not violate its duty to bargain in good faith merely by seeking reductions in existing wages and benefits, or pay nonstriking employees higher wager rates than those set forth in it's final offer to Union.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2000
• Decided 12/29/2000
• Published 12/29/2000

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges, and KEELEY, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  Joel Harvey Kaplan, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Illinois, for Grinnell. David Arthur Fleisher, Senior Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Board. William Walter Osborne, Jr., Osborne Law Offices, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Local 669, et al. ON BRIEF:  Christopher A. Weals, Charles F. Walters, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Washington, D.C., for Grinnell.  Leonard R. Page, General Counsel, Linda Sher, Associate General Counsel, Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Board.  Robert Matisoff, Nicholas Femia, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, Washington, D.C., for Local 669, et al.