(October 8, 2015, 10:25 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Union representatives must be allowed access to the factory where an employee was killed while working, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 2, enforcing an order by the National Labor Relations Board (Caterpillar Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, Nos. 14-3528 and 14-3729, 7th Cir.; 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 17324).

(Opinion available. Document #73-151009-043Z.)

Caterpillar Inc. manufacturers construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. In July 2011, Caterpillar bought a strip-mining equipment factory in...