National Labor Relations Board v. Jeffries Lithograph Company, a Subsidiary of Ticor Printing Group, Inc.

The only question before us is whether substantial evidence supports the National Labor Relations Board’s finding that Jeffries Lithograph Co. is the successor employer to Biltmore Press, Inc. After reviewing the record as a whole, we conclude that substantial evidence supports this finding. Therefore, we enforce the Board’s order, which finds Jeffries guilty of committing unfair labor practices for failing to bargain with Local 262 of the Graphic Arts International Union (the union).

FACTS

Biltmore Press was a small printing operation located in Carson, California. Biltmore employed about 20 production employees who answered to a single foreman. The two owners, Arthur and Robert Sollima, handled all other managerial and administrative matters.

The union represented the production employees under a collective bargaining agreement that expired on April 30, 1981. The agreement contained no successorship clause, but represented the latest product of a bargaining relationship that had lasted 20 years.

A. The Company Decides to Expand

During 1980, Ticor Printing Group, a holding company consisting of several printing operations located in California, Illinois, New York, and Texas,…