Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local No. 364, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board

This is a proceeding to review a decision and order of the National Labor Relations Board (Board) based on charges by a union that an employer had engaged in certain unfair labor practices. The union, which is the petitioner in this court, is the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 364, AFL-CIO (Union). The employer is Point St. George Fisheries, Inc. (Employer). We have jurisdiction under section 10(f) of the National Labor Relations Act (Act), 29 U. S.C. § 160(f).

Based up on charges filed by the Union, the Board’s regional director issued a complaint alleging the Employer engaged in the following unfair labor practices, in violation of section 8(a) (1) and (3) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158 (a) (1) and (3): (1) discharging four employees because of their union activities; (2) engaging in surveillance of employees’ union activities on specified dates; and (3) interrogating employees on specified dates concerning their union activities or sympathies.

At the hearing before the Board’s trial examiner, the allegations of surveillance were dismissed at the close of the General Counsel’s case. This was done on the motion of the Employer on the ground of…