Victoria Station, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board

Victoria Station, Inc. petitions this court for review of a National Labor Relations Board order directing it to bargain with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 2 (the Union). The Board seeks enforcement of the decision and order reported at 233„ N.L.R.B. No. 8 (1977). We enforce the order.

Victoria Station, Inc. (the Company) operates approximately fifty-one restaurants throughout the United States and Canada. Seeking to organize the workers at two of these restaurants, Victoria Station at 50 Broadway and Thomas Lord’s at 2000 Union Street, both in San Francisco, the Union filed representation petitions with the Board. The Union contended that the employees at each of the restaurants constituted an appropriate collective bargaining unit. The Company contended that only a multi-restaurant unit including the employees of its seven San Francisco Bay Area restaurants was appropriate.

Disregarding a 1973 determination which found a single unit of one Bay Area restaurant was inappropriate for Victoria Station, the Regional Director approved the two separate bargaining units. The Board denied the Company’s request for review and separate elections were…