Labor Board v. Virginia Power Co.

In NLRB v. Virginia Electric Power Co., 314 U.S. 469, 477, 62 S.Ct. 344, 348, 86 L.Ed. 348 (1941), the Supreme court concluded that the Wagner Act could not be interpreted to prohibit an employer from exercising his First Amendment right to express his views to employees on the merits of unionization, provided the expression was neither coercive nor part of a coercive course of conduct.

Virginia Elec. Power v. Natl. Labor R. Board

In Virginia Electric Power Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 4 Cir., 115 F.2d 414, we rejected the similar claim of the employer that its gas department should be regarded as purely local and separate from its interstate electric operations, and we held that wage controversies or unfair labor practices in one department of such a business would have repercussions in other departments, and that disputes affecting the interstate commerce in which the company was engaged would be avoided only if the rights of all the employees were properly safeguarded.

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.