Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. NLRB, 19264.
| Citation | 417 F.2d 1060 |
| Decision Date | 28 October 1969 |
| Docket Number | No. 19264.,19264. |
| Parties | The BEACON JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO., Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. |
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) |
Robert S. Carabell, Akron, Ohio, for petitioner; Brouse, McDowell, May & Bierce, Charles R. Iden and Robert S. Carabell, Akron, Ohio, on brief.
Paul J. Spielberg, Atty., N.L.R.B., Washington, D. C., for respondent; Arnold Ordman, Gen. Counsel, Dominick L. Manoli, Associate Gen. Counsel, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on brief.
Before CELEBREZZE, PECK, and McCREE, Circuit Judges.
This case is before us a second time. Again Beacon Journal is seeking review, and the National Labor Relations Board is cross-petitioning for enforcement of an order of the Board. On September 9, 1968, another panel of this court agreed with the Board that Beacon Journal violated Sections 8(a) (5) and 8(a) (1) of the National Labor Relations Act by unilaterally altering the formula used to calculate Christmas bonuses in 1965. Beacon Journal Pub. Co. v. NLRB, 401 F.2d 366. The court enforced the Board's order, 164 N.L.R.B. No. 98 (1967), insofar as it required the parties to bargain on demand over the Christmas bonus formula for 1965 and later years, and we are aware of no complaint that the parties have not thereafter bargained and reached agreement regarding Christmas bonuses for 1966 and later years.
However, observing the long-standing satisfactory collective bargaining relationship between the parties, as found by the trial examiner and the Board, and the absence of any claim of discriminatory purpose or anti-union animus on the part of Beacon Journal, the court remanded to the Board for further consideration that portion of its order requiring reimbursement for the difference between the bonus that was paid in 1965 and that which would have been paid under the previous formula.
This court's original decision found two omissions in the Board's first order. It recited:
The Board does not point to any facts which distinguish the reimbursement order involved herein from that involved in the New Orleans Board of Trade case 152 N.L.R.B. 1258 (1965). Nor does the Board tell us why this reimbursement claim should not be the subject of collective bargaining between the parties. 401 F.2d at 368.
The Board's supplemental decision and order, 173 N.L.R.B. No. 181 (1969), which we consider here, does articulate certain factual differences between this case and New Orleans Board of Trade, but it does not sufficiently explain why the reimbursement claim should not be the subject of collective bargaining, in light of the parties' long satisfactory bargaining history. Instead, the Board simply makes the conclusory statement that ...
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