United States Sixth Circuit

Union's pre-election offer of a free weekend trip to Chicago for employees, in conjunction with the two-hour union meeting, was sufficiently valuable, and out of proportion to legitimate activity, to influence union vote separate from the merits of the election.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2000
• Published 11/14/2000

Judges

• Before:  MERRITT and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  BELL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore R. Opperwall (argued and briefed), Kienbaum, Opperwall, Hardy & Pelton, Birmingham, MI, for Petitioner., John G. Adam (briefed), Stuart M. Israel (briefed), Martens, Ice, Geary, Klass, Legghio, Israel & Gorchow, Southfield, MI, Theodore E. Meckler (argued), Law Offices of Theodore E. Meckler, Rocky River, OH, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Deirdre Fitzpatrick (argued and briefed), Frederick C. Havard (briefed), National Labor Relations Board, Appellate Court Branch, Washington, DC, for Respondent.