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Parties Involved:
McGuire Plumbing and Heating
Respondent
National Labor Relations Board
Petitioner

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 04-1924

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National Labor Relations Board, *

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Petitioner, *

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v. *

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McGuire Plumbing and Heating, Inc., *

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Respondent. *

__________ On Petition for Review from

National Labor Relations Board.

No. 04-2114

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National Labor Relations Board, *

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Respondent, *

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v. *

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McGuire Plumbing and Heating, Inc., *

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Petitioner. *

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Submitted: January 10, 2005

Filed: January 19, 2005

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Before WOLLMAN, FAGG, and BYE, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

An administrative law judge (ALJ) found McGuire Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

unlawfully refused to hire two union members, Dale Hankins and Robert Vance.

McGuire was ordered to take affirmative action to make Hankins and Vance whole

for any loss of earnings. McGuire Plumbing did not file any exceptions with the

Board, the Board summarily adopted the ALJ’s decision, and we summarily entered

a judgment enforcing the Board’s order. A dispute about the amount of backpay

arose. After a hearing, an administrative law judge (ALJ) determined the applicable

back pay period, the hours Hankins and Vance would have worked, and their wage

rates. The Board affirmed the ALJ’s decision. McGuire now petitions for review

and the NLRB seeks enforcement. 

McGuire raises eight arguments challenging the back pay orders. McGuire’s

arguments are not properly before us. McGuire Plumbing’s claim that the company

would not have hired Vance was resolved against the company in the underlying

unfair labor practice proceeding and cannot be relitigated in this compliance

proceeding. NLRB v. Laredo Packing Co., 730 F.2d 405, 407 (8th Cir. 1984).

McGuire Plumbing did not raise most of its remaining arguments in exceptions before

the Board and offers no extraordinary reasons for failing to do so. Thus, we lack

jurisdiction to consider them. Cobb Mech. Contractors, Inc. v. NLRB, 295 F.3d

1370, 1377 (D.C. Cir. 2002). McGuire Plumbing raised one issue in exceptions to

the Board that was not decided in the underlying unfair labor practice proceeding:

that backpay was excessive because the backpay period failed to account for the

company’s typical employment cycle and normal pattern of employee hires,

discharges, and involuntary terminations. The Board considered the issue and

resolved it against the company. Because McGuire Plumbing did not raise the issue

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in its opening brief, we decline to consider it. See United States v. Brown, 108 F.3d

863, 867 (8th Cir. 1997).

We thus deny the petition for review and enforce the Board’s backpay order.

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