# Bell Foundry Company, Petitioner/cross-Respondent v. National Labor Relations Board, Respondent/cross-Petitioner

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · September 15, 1987 · 827 F.2d 1340

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## Case

- **Full name:** BELL FOUNDRY COMPANY, Petitioner/cross-respondent, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent/cross-petitioner
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** September 15, 1987
- **Citations:** 827 F.2d 1340; 126 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2705; 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 12405
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Kennedy
- **Judges:** Kennedy, Poole, Lovell
- **Cited by:** 11 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the judgment, with one observation. The goal of an organizing campaign, achieved through free and vigorous debate, is to make an informed choice possible for employees. See Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers, 383 U.S. 53, 62 , 86 S.Ct. 657, 663 , 15 L.Ed.2d 582 (1966); NLRB v. Lenkurt Elec. Co., 438 F.2d 1102, 1108 (9th Cir.1978). Given this goal, it is somewhat odd to require employees to sign authorization cards before hearing the Union’s pitch. The company, however, argues only that the principles of NLRB v. Savair Mfg. Co., 414 U.S. 270 , 94 S.Ct. 495 , 38 L.Ed.2d 495 (1973), have been violated, and that is not the case.

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