The employees of Poodle Manufacturing Corp. are represented…

The employees of Poodle Manufacturing Corp. are represented by a union. All the mechanics who repair the company’s equipment work day shifts, which means that if equipment breaks down in one of the other shifts, Poodle has to pay overtime or suffer lost production. Poodle proposes to the union that the mechanics be assigned rotating shifts to solve the problem, but the union refuses. Poodle then unilaterally changes the shift assignments in accordance with its proposal. The union, sensing malpractice, goes on strike, and Poodle replaces the striking mechanics. Later, the National Labor Relations Board finds that Poodle has indeed committed malpractice. If the striking mechanics make an unconditional offer to return to work, Poodle: