...Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, which provides in pertinent part: Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective...exclusive representatives of all the employees in such units for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment,...

...Relations Act, the predicate for the recognition of a labor organization is that the union has been "designated or selected for the purposes of collective...employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes." And, under § 9(c), a union which loses the support of the majority of the employees can be decertified...

...predicate for workplace representation by a labor organization is its "designation! or select I ion ] for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority...employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes." An actual secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) typically is...

...by which a union obtains exclusive representative status, and stipulates that labor organizations: designated or selected for the purposes of collective...unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment.33 Thus, only...

...bargaining unit has the right of "exclusive representation" for all workers in that unit: Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective...bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit [that the federal government deems] appropriate for such purposes . . shall be the exclusive representatives...

...bargaining unit. Here is the opening and relevant portion of this provision. Sec. 9. (a) Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective...such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. . . . That clause, in juxtaposition with the other two pertinent provisions of the bill as introduced,...

...— and still is — the only limitation on the bargaining requirement, provided that representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective...such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining ... The bargaining requirement, however, was contained only in Section 7 and in the unfair-labor-practice...

...American, Canadian, Polish and Japanese reports. The American NLRA clearly provides that: Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective...representatives of all the employees in such unit for the purpose of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions...