National Labor Relations Board v. Squire Shops, Inc.

The Board applies for enforcement of its order requiring Squire Shops to cease and desist from unfair labor practices, to reinstate with back pay a discharged employee, to recognize and bargain with the Union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of the employees in the unit, to execute a contract it negotiated with the Union, to make whole the Union and unit employees for any losses suffered because of the refusal to execute the negotiated contract, and to post appropriate notices. The decision and order of the Board are reported at 218 NLRB No. 26 . We grant enforcement.

The key factual findings upon which the Board’s order rests are supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole and will not be disturbed. Universal Camera Corp. v. N.L.R.B., 340 U.S. 474 , 71 S.Ct. 456 , 95 L.Ed. 456 (1951). The Board found that Squire Shops violated § 8(a)(1) of the Act by coercively interrogating an employee concerning his union activities, by threatening to discharge an employee because of his activity on behalf of the Union, by soliciting employee grievances and promising to remedy them after receiving notice of the Union’s petition for certification, and by…