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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 29:0160 Labor: NLRA - Prevention of Unfair Labor Practices

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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,

Petitioner,

CASE NO. 15cv0039-GPC(JLB)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

TEMPORARY INJUNCTION

UNDER SECTION 10(j) OF THE

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS

ACT, AS AMENDED (29 U.S.C. §

160(j))

vs.

HIGH FLYING FOODS,

Respondent.

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. § 160(j)); (herein called the Act), pending final disposition on the

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

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

found and concluded that Petitioner islikely to successfully establish in administrative

proceedings that Respondent has partially engaged in, and is engaging in, acts and

conduct in violation of Sections 8(a)(1), (a)(3) and (a)(5) of the Act, (29 U.S.C. §§

158(a)(1),(3), and (5)), and that such acts and conduct will likely be repeated or

continued unless enjoined.

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Now, therefore, upon the entire record, it is ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND

DECREED, that, pending final disposition of the matters involved pending before the

Board:

1. Respondent High Flying Foods, its officers, agents, successors, and assigns, and

all persons acting in concert or participation with it, are enjoined from:

(a) Bypassing the Union and dealing directly with its employees in the Unit

by requiring employees to sign acknowledgment forms agreeing that Respondent may

unilaterally change their terms and conditions of employment;

(b) Implementing a new employee handbook without prior notice to theUnion

and without affording the Union an opportunity to bargain with Respondent over this

conduct and the effects of this conduct ;

(c) Promulgating and maintaining a rule prohibiting employees fromsoliciting

other employees for the Union during work when the solicitation does not interfere

with work;

(d) Prohibiting employees from circulating and soliciting other employees to

sign a petition on behalf of the Union when the activities do not interfere with work;

(e) Prohibiting employees from talking about the Union during working

hours, while permitting employees to talk about other non-work subjects;

(f) Interrogating its employees regarding their union membership, activities,

and sympathies;

(g) Suspending employees for talking about the Union during working time

if the talking did not interfere with work; 

(h) Issuing written warningsto employees because they joined or assisted the

Union and engaged in concerted activities to discourage employees from engaging in

these activities;

(i) Suspending and terminating employees because they joined or assisted the

Union and engaged in concerted activities to discourage employees from engaging in

these activities.

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(j) In any other manner, interfering with, restraining or coercing employees

in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act (29 U.S.C. § 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) Within five (5) days of the District Court's Order, offer in writing to

Francisco Hernandez, immediate interim reinstatement to the same positions he held

at the time he was discharged on or about August 18, 2014, or, if the position no longer

exists, to a substantially equivalent position, without prejudice to his seniority or any

other rights or privileges previously enjoyed while working for the Respondent,

displacing if necessary any workers subsequently hired, transferred, or reassigned

employees;

(b) Within five (5) days of the issuance of the District Court's Order, remove

from its files any reference to the unlawful suspension and termination of Francisco

Hernandez, and within three (3) days thereafter notify the employee in writing that this

has been done and that the suspension and termination will not be used against him in

any way;

(c) Rescind the new employee handbook promulgated in or about April 2014,

and rescind the acknowledgments signed by employees stating that Respondent can

change the terms and conditions of employment;

(d) Rescind the rule prohibiting employees from soliciting other employees

for the Union on working time;

(e) Rescind the rule prohibiting employees fromdiscussing the Union during

working hours;

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

copies of the District Court's order at Respondent's facilities at the San Diego Airport

(in English and Spanish) where noticesto employees are customarily posted; maintain

these postings during the Board's administrative proceeding free from all obstructions

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

translation of the Order into Spanish shall be at Respondent's expense, the translation

to be approved by the Regional Director;

(g) Within ten (10) days of the District Court's Order, in the presence of a

Board Agent and a representative of the Union, require the District Court's Order to be

read by a responsible official of Respondent, or, at Respondent's option, by a Board

Agent in the presence of a responsible official of Respondent, in English and Spanish

to assembled employees at Respondent's facilities located at the San Diego Airport

during paid working time;

(h) Grant agents of the Board reasonable access to Respondent's facilities at

the San Diego Airport in order to monitor compliance with the posting requirement;

(i) Within twenty (20) days of the issuance of the District Court's order, file

with the District Court, with a copy submitted 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 the

District Court's order, including how and when it posted the documentsrequired by the

order.

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

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: February 12, 2015

HON. GONZALO P. CURIEL

United States District Judge

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