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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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DWIGHT L. ARMSTRONG, BAR NO. 075716 

ALEXANDER NESTOR, BAR NO. 202795 

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4074 

Telephone Number: (415) 837-1515 

darmstrong@allenmatkins.com 

anestor@allenmatkins.com 

Attorneys for Respondent 

MATTHEW J. GAUGER, BAR NO. 139785 

GARY P. PROVENCHER, BAR NO. 250923 

Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, A Professional Corporation 

428 J Street, Suite 520 Sacramento, California 95814 

Telephone (916) 443-6600 

mgauger@unioncounsel.net 

gprovencher@unioncounsel.net 

Attorneys for Charging Party 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOSEPH F. FRANKL, Regional Director of 

Region 20 of the National Labor Relations 

Board, for and on behalf of the NATIONAL 

LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, 

Petitioner, 

 vs. 

SQUIRES LUMBER COMPANY INC., 

Respondent. 

Civil No. 2:16-cv-00534-KJM-KJN 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

CONTINUING CASE UNDER 29 U.S.C. 

§ 160(j) 

JILL H. COFFMAN, NY BAR 2307098

CHRISTY J. KWON, CA BAR 217186 

MATTHEW C. PETERSON, CA BAR 244970, Counsel for Service 

JASON P. WONG, AZ BAR 024940 

National Labor Relations Board, Region 20 

901 Market Street, Suite 400 

San Francisco, California 94103-1735 

Telephone Number: (415) 356-5171 

Matt.Peterson@nlrb.gov 

Attorneys for Petitioner 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Petitioner, Joseph F. Frankl, 

Regional Director of Region 20 of the National Labor Relations Board (the Board), the Charging 

Party, Carpenters Local 2236 (the Union), and Respondent, Squires Lumber Company, Inc., by their 

respective attorneys, and subject to the approval of the Court, that: 

1. After securing authorization from the Board, the Petitioner, for and on behalf of the 

Board, filed a petition with this Court pursuant to Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act, 

29 U.S.C. Section 160, seeking a temporary injunction against Respondent, pending the final 

administrative disposition of certain unfair labor practice charges now pending before the Board, 

from violating Section 8(a)(l ), (2), (3) and (5) of the Act. (29 U.S.C. Section 158(a)(l), (2), (3), and 

(5)). 

2. On April 8, 2016, Administrative Law Judge Mary Miller Cracraft (ALJ) issued a 

decision and order in Case JD(SF)-18-16 finding that Respondent had violated the Act and ordering 

Respondent to cease and desist from engaging in certain unfair labor practices, and to affirmatively 

engage in certain conduct (“Order”). See Exhibit 1. 

3. All parties agree that no exceptions to the Order will be filed. Accordingly, if no 

exceptions are filed, the findings, conclusions and recommended Order of the ALJ will be adopted 

by the Board and all objections to them shall be waived for all purposes. 

4. In consideration of the following undertakings of Respondent, the Petitioner and the 

Union agree that the hearing before the Court on this petition shall be postponed indefinitely and 

that this cause of action shall be placed on the Court's inactive docket. 

5. The parties further agree that, pending the Board's final administrative adjudication of 

Board Cases 20-CA-160279; 20-CA-162074; 20-CA-162418; 20-CA-162722; 20-CA-162732; 20-

CA-162834; 20-CA-166576; and 20-CA-165730, Respondent, its officers, agents, successors and 

assigns, shall cease and desist from: 

(a) Failing and refusing to recognize and bargain in good faith with the Northern 

California Carpenters Regional Council, Carpenters Local 2236, United Brotherhood of Carpenters 

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and Joiners of America (the Union) as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the 

employees in the following unit (the Unit): 

All regular, full-time millworker employees directly employed by Respondent at its Suisun 

City, California, facility; 

(b) Disciplining or firing employees because of their union support or affiliation; 

(c) Prohibiting its employees from removing their hard hats when on break unless 

sitting at the break table or in their vehicles; temporarily moving a portable toilet inside from 

outdoors to the warehouse near its employees’ break and work areas; refusing to allow its 

millworkers to use the indoor sink for hand washing before meal and rest breaks; locking its internal 

office door during business hours; or making other workplace changes in order to discourage 

employees from engaging in union activity; 

(d) Unilaterally changing its hard hat policy or otherwise unilaterally changing 

employees' terms and conditions of employment without first giving the Union notice and an 

opportunity to bargain; and 

(e) In any like or related manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing 

employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights. 

6. The parties further agree that, pending the Board's final administrative adjudication of 

Board Cases 20-CA-160279; 20-CA-162074; 20-CA-162418; 20-CA-162722; 20-CA-162732; 20-

CA-162834; 20-CA-166576; and 20-CA-165730, Respondent, its officers, agents, successors and 

assigns, shall take the following affirmative steps: 

(a) On request recognize and bargain in good faith with the Union as the 

exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the employees in the Unit; 

(b) Rescind, at the Union’s request, the prohibition against employees removing 

their hard hats when on break unless sitting at the break table or in their vehicles, and provide notice 

to the Union and an opportunity to bargain over any future proposed changes with respect to wages, 

hours and other terms and conditions of employment; 

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(c) Within five (5) business days of the District Court’s approval of this 

Stipulation and Order, offer employee Bobby Saephan full reinstatement to the job position which he 

previously held, or to a substantially equivalent position if his position no longer exists, without 

prejudice to his rights and privileges, displacing, if necessary, any newly converted or hired outside 

applicants; 

(d) Within ten (10) business days of the District Court’s approval of this 

Stipulation and Order, post copies of this Stipulation and Order, in English, at its facility in Suisun 

City, California, in all places where notices to its employees are normally posted; maintain these 

postings during the Board’s administrative proceeding free from all obstructions and defacements; 

grant all employees free and unrestricted access to said postings; and grant to agents of the Board 

reasonable access to its facilities to monitor compliance with this posting requirement; and 

(e) Within ten (10) business days of the District Court's approval of this 

Stipulation and Order, hold a mandatory meeting or meetings, scheduled on working time to ensure 

the widest possible attendance, at which this Stipulation and Order is to be read to the millworker 

employees by a responsible management official in the presence of a Board Agent, or, at the 

Employer's option, by a Board Agent in that official's presence at its facility in Suisun City, 

California; and 

(f) Within twenty-one (21) days of the District Court’s approval of this 

Stipulation and Order, file with the District Court and serve upon the Regional Director of Region 20 

of the Board, a declaration under penalty of perjury from a responsible official describing with 

specificity the manner in which Respondent has complied with the terms of the Stipulation and 

Order, including the locations of the posted documents. 

7. The parties further agree that if, upon investigation and after providing Respondent 

with reasonable time to participate in such investigation, the Board concludes that there is reasonable 

cause to believe that Respondent, after the date the Court approves this Stipulation and Order, has 

failed to comply with paragraphs 5 or 6, above, 

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(a) the Board may by motion apply to this Court for, and shall be granted, 

notwithstanding any local rule of this Court, an expedited hearing to be conducted no less than seven 

(7) days after said motion is filed, for the purposes of determining whether such reasonable cause 

exists that Respondent has failed to comply with the undertakings described in paragraphs 5 or 6, 

above; and 

(b) if, after such hearing and an opportunity for Respondent to be heard, the 

Court concludes that such reasonable cause as alleged by the Board does exist that Respondent has 

failed to comply with the undertakings described in paragraphs 5 or 6 above, Respondent shall 

withdraw its previous Opposition filed on April 8, 2016, and shall not contest that interim relief is just and 

proper under Section 10(j) of the Act, and the Court shall then enter a temporary injunctive order to 

require Respondent, pending the Board's final administrative adjudication of Board Cases 20-CA160279; 20-CA-162074; 20-CA-162418; 20-CA-162722; 20-CA-162732; 20-CA-162834; 20-CA166576; and 20-CA-165730, to cease and desist from the conduct as described in paragraph 5, above, 

and to comply with the affirmative conduct described in paragraph 6, above. 

8. Unless the provisions of paragraph 7 are invoked by the Board, this case shall remain 

on the inactive docket of the Court pending the Board's final administrative adjudication of Board 

Cases 20-CA-160279; 20-CA-162074; 20-CA-162418; 20-CA-162722; 20-CA-162732; 20-CA162834; 20-CA-166576; and 20-CA-165730, and within ten (10) days after final disposition of these 

unfair labor practice cases, currently pending before the Board, the Board shall cause this proceeding, 

including any injunctive order(s) issued by the Court pursuant to the provisions in paragraph 7, 

above, to be dismissed with prejudice and without costs to either party. 

_/s/ Dwight Armstrong (as authorized on 4/20/16)_______ Date: _April 20, 2016_______ 

Dwight Armstrong 

Attorney for Respondent 

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

(continued) 

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__/s/ Matthew C. Peterson__________________________ Date: _April 20, 2016____________ 

Matthew C. Peterson 

Attorney for Petitioner 

National Labor Relations Board, Region 20 

901 Market Street, Suite 400 

San Francisco, CA 94103-1735 

_/s/ Matthew J. Gauger (as authorized on 4/20/16)_______ Date: _April 20, 2016______ 

Matthew J. Gauger 

Attorney for Charging Party 

Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, A Professional Corporation 

428 J Street, Suite 520 Sacramento, California 95814 

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ORDER 

The parties’ Stipulation and Order to Continue Case Under Section 160(j) of the Act is 

hereby GRANTED. This case is STAYED pending the Board’s invocation of the provisions of 

paragraph 7 above, or the Board’s dismissal of this case with prejudice within ten (10) days after 

final disposition of the unfair labor practice cases identified above, which occurs first in time. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED AT Sacramento, California, this 20th day of April, 2016. 

 _________________________________________ 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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