Bottling company loses labor dispute after U.S. high court detour
Source: Reuters
Bottling company loses labor dispute after U.S. high court detour
By Lawrence Hurley
May 17, 2016
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The soft drink bottling company that succeeded in reining in U.S. presidential powers by challenging the way President Barack Obama appointed National Labor Relations Board members has lost the underlying dispute that prompted that Supreme Court battle.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that there was "no merit" to Noel Canning Co's latest appeal of a 2012 NLRB finding that the Yakima, Washington-based company had violated labor law by failing to comply with a collective bargaining agreement.
Noel Canning objected to the board's decision, arguing that some members of the NLRB panel that handled the matter were so-called recess appointees improperly named to the board by Obama without U.S. Senate approval.
Obama used his recess appointment power - appointing executive branch officials when senators are on recess to posts that ordinarily require Senate confirmation - to name three members to the five-member NLRB in January 2012.
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I took my own case to the NLRB when their were only two members. So, of course, it went nowhere. 
