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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 29:151 Labor: Review of Agency Action

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OLIVIA GARCIA, Regional Director

of Region 21 of the National Labor

Relations Board, for and on behalf of

the NATIONAL LABOR

RELATIONS BOARD

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 13CV1159-GPC(WMC)

TEMPORARY INJUNTION

UNDER SECTION 10(j) OF THE

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS

ACT, AS AMENDED [29 U.S.C.

SEC. 160(j)]

vs.

FALLBROOK HOSPITAL

CORPORATION d/b/a FALLBROOK

HOSPITAL,

Defendant.

This case came to be heard on the petition of Olivia Garcia, Regional Director

of Region 21 of the National Labor Relations Board (herein called the Board), for a

temporary injunction pursuant to Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act, as

amended (29 U.S.C. Sec. 160(j); herein called the Act), pending final disposition on

the matters involved pending before the Board. The Court, upon consideration of the

pleadings, evidence, briefs, arguments of counsel, and the entire record in this case, has

made and filed its findings of fact and conclusions of law, finding and concluding that

Petitioner is likely to successfully establish in administrative proceedings that

Respondent has engaged in, and is engaging in, acts and conduct in violation of Section

8(a)(1) and (5) of the Act (29 U.S.C. Sec. 158(a)(1) and (5)), affecting commerce

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within the meaning of Section 2(6) and (7) of the Act (29 U.S.C. Sec. 152(6) and (7),

and that such acts and conduct will likely be repeated or continued unless enjoined.

Now, therefore, upon the entire record, and having reviewed both parties’ proposed

temporary injunction order, it is ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that,

pending final disposition of the matters involved pending before the Board:

1. Respondent Fallbrook Hospital Corporation d/b/a Fallbrook Hospital, its

officers, agents, successors, and assigns, and all persons acting in concert or

participation with it, are enjoined from:

(a) Failing and refusing to consider California Nurses Association/National

Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), AFL-CIO (herein called the Union)

proposals or to present its own proposals during collective-bargaining agreement

negotiations, unless and until it receives all of the Union's proposals;

(b) Failing and refusing to bargain with the Union over terms of a

collective-bargaining agreement unless and until the Union agreesthat unit employees

discontinue the use of Assignment Despite Objection (ADO) forms;

(c) Failing and refusing to bargain with the Union about the terminations of

two unit employees;

(d) Failing and refusing to provide the Union with relevant, requested

information;

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

employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed them by Section 7 of the Act (29

U.S.C. Sec. 157). 

2. Respondent, its officers, agents, successors, assigns, and all persons acting in

concert or participation with it are affirmatively ordered pending final Board

adjudication to:

(a) Immediately following issuance of the District Court's Order, and on

request of the Union, meet and bargain in good faith with the Union as the exclusive

representative of the Unit employees on terms and conditions of employment and, if

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an understanding is reach, embody the understanding in a signed agreement;

(b) Immediately following issuance of the District Court's Order, and on

request of the Union, meet and bargain in good faith with the Union as the exclusive

representative of the Unit employees about the terminations of unit employees Martha

Robinson and Libby Sandwell;

(c) Within ten (10) days of the issuance of the District Court's Order,

provide the Union with a list of the Registered Nurses (RNs) in the emergency room

that have been terminated within the last three years and the reasons for the

terminations.

(d) Within five (5) days of the issuance of the District Court's Order, post

copies of the District Court's Order at the Respondent's Fallbrook Hospital, in English,

where noticesto employees are customarily posted; the posting to bemaintained during

the pendency of the Board's administrative proceedings free from all obstructions and

defacements; and all employees shall have free and unrestricted access to said Order;

(e) Grant to agents of the Board reasonable access to Respondent's

Fallbrook Hospital in order to monitor compliance with the posting requirement; and

(f) Within twenty (20) days of the issuance of the District Court's

Order, file with the DistrictCourt and submit a copy to the Regional Director of Region

21 of the Board, a sworn affidavit from a responsible official of Respondent setting

forth, with specificity, the manner in which Respondent has complied with the terms

of this decree, including how it has posted the District Court's Order; correspondence

exchanged between Respondent and the Union memorializing Union requests to

bargain; dates that the Respondent and Union have met and/or are scheduled to meet

for purposes of collective-bargaining agreement negotiations; and the information

Respondent has provided to the Union in response to the Union's request for list of the

Registered Nurses (RNs) in the emergency room that have been terminated within the

last three years and the reasons for the terminations.

3. This case shall remain open on the docket of this Court. On compliance by

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Respondent with its obligations undertaken hereto, and upon final disposition of the

matters pending before the Board, the Petitioner shall cause this proceeding to be

dismissed.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: June 11, 2013

HON. GONZALO P. CURIEL

United States District Judge

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