National Labor Relations Board v. Buckley Broadcasting Corporation of California, Dba Station Kkhi

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) petitions for enforcement of its bargaining order against respondent Buckley Broadcasting Corporation (“Buckley”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 160 (e) and affirm the NLRB’s order of enforcement.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

The facts underlying this case are not in dispute. Buckley operates radio station KKHI in San Francisco. For many years it has had a collective bargaining relationship with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (“NABET”), representing the company’s engineering and technical employees, and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (“AFTRA”), representing the company’s broadcast announcers. The last contract between Buckley and NABET expired on February 1, 1978. Negotiations for a new contract failed after Buckley proposed to assign both broadcast and engineering duties to the on-air announcer, a departure from the customary practice of having separate employees perform each function. NABET objected to this operating scheme, and when Buckley's “final offer” for combined operations did not meet with its approval, Buckley’s five technicians and engineers went on…