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320 F3d 385 Spectacor Management Group v. National Labor Relations Board 320 F.3d 385
SPECTACOR MANAGEMENT GROUP, Petitionerv.NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, RespondentAtlantic Exposition Services, Inc., IntervenorSouth Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 623 Affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO Petitionerv.National Labor Relations Board, RespondentAtlantic Exposition Services, Inc., IntervenorNational Labor Relations Board, Petitionerv.Spectacor Management Group; South Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 623, Affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, RespondentsAtlantic Exposition Services, Inc., Intervenor.
No. 01-3644.
No. 01-3694.
James A. Matthews, III (Argued), Jessica L. Pollock, Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Philadelphia, for Petitioner Spectacor Management Group, No. 01-3644, Respondent Spectacor Management Group, No. 01-4036.
James Katz (Argued), Howard S. Simonoff, Sagot, Jennings & Sigmond, Cherry Hill, for Petitioner Local 623, No. 01-3694, Respondent Local 623, No. 01-4036.
Arthur F. Rosenfeld, General Counsel, John E. Higgins, Jr., Deputy General Counsel, John H. Ferguson, Associate General Counsel, Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Robert J. Englehart, Supervisory Attorney, James M. Oleske, Jr. (Argued), National Labor Relations Board, Washington, for Petitioner NLRB, No. 01-4036, Respondent NLRB, Nos. 01-3644, 01-3694.
James J. Rodgers, Dilworth, Paxson, Philadelphia, Howard K. Trubman, Sobol & Trubman, Philadelphia, for Intervenor Atlantic Exposition Services, Inc., Nos. 01-3644, 01-3694, 01-4036.
Brian F. Quinn, DeCarlo, Connor & Selvo, Washington, for United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Amicus-Appellant, No. 01-3644.
James M. Walters, John M. Capron, Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, for GES Exposition, Amicus-Appellant, Nos. 01-3644, 01-3694, Amicus-Appellee, No. 01-4036.
Before SLOVITER, FUENTES, Circuit Judges, and DEBEVOISE,* District Judge.
At issue in this case is whether it was reasonable for the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "Board") to find that § 8(e) of the National Labor Relations Act ("Act"), 29 U.S.C. § 158(e), was violated by (1) an agreement between the Union and the company managing a convention center that provides that the installation, assembly and dismantling of temporary tradeshow exhibits would be subcontracted only to companies that hired Union members and (2) to find that such work was not protected by the construction industry proviso of § 8(e). All parties agree that the latter issue is one of first impression.
Spectacor Management Group ("SMG") and the South Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 623 ("Union") (collectively "Petitioners") petition this court for review of the order and decision of the NLRB finding that an agreement entered into and enforced by Petitioners violated § 8(e) of the National Labor Relations Act ("Act"). The agreement, which precluded SMG from subcontracting trade show work to employers who did not have collective bargaining agreements with the Union, was enforced against Atlantic Exposition Services, Inc. ("AES"), the original Charging Party and Intervenor here.
The Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") ruled against the Petitioners. On appeal, the Board approved the ALJ's finding that the agreement violated § 8(e). The Board agreed that the "agreement lacked a work preservation objective, that the work covered by the agreement was not performed on a construction site, and therefore that the agreement was not protected by the construction industry proviso." Decision & Order at 1, 335 NLRB No. 49 (2001). As a result, the Board adopted the recommended order of the ALJ which, in relevant part, directed the parties to cease and desist from maintaining and enforcing their subcontracting agreement.
Some background of the current dispute is necessary to appreciate the issue. Between 1983 and 1995, the Atlantic City Convention Center Authority ("ACCCA") operated and managed the Convention Center. The Union represented ACCCA employees who assembled and dismantled trade show exhibits. During this time, the collective bargaining agreements between ACCCA and the Union precluded ACCCA from subcontracting trade show work. In or before 1995, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority became an owner of the Center and decided to manage it through SMG, a private management company.1 When SMG's predecessors managed the Convention Center, they directly hired members of the Union for trade show work.
Trade employees who work on a part-time basis or who perform contracted work for SMG (e.g. "show" labor) will work under a Separate Agreement which will be negotiated as soon as is practicable. It is understood and agreed that the Separate Agreement will contain a provision stipulating that in the event SMG subcontracts the covered work, the covered work will be subcontracted to a firm which will ... negotiate an agreement with the (Trade) Local having jurisdiction over that work with SMG. The said sub-contractor will be free to negotiate the terms and conditions of the said agreement and will not be bound by SMG's agreement(s) with the applicable local union.
Decision & Order at 3. No Separate Agreement as referred to above was negotiated but the parties proceeded to act as if the above paragraph was binding. If a subcontractor failed to reach its own agreement with the Union, it was required to obtain labor through the previous method where SMG played middleman, using Union labor.
AES, unlike many, if not all, of the other subcontractors at the Convention Center, did not sign an agreement with the Union but chose to use its own employees, members of the Painters Union. In 1998, as an AES employee was installing a tradeshow exhibit at the Center, he was ordered to stop working by a Union foreman. Thereafter, the SMG General Manager demanded that AES either use Union laborers or leave the Convention Center altogether. This current litigation ensued.
On October 13, 1998, AES filed charges against the Union and SMG for refusing to allow AES to use its own employees to do its tradeshow work at the Convention Center. The ALJ found that the Union and SMG had violated § 8(e) of the Act when they entered into and enforced the agreement that SMG would not subcontract work to employers who did not have collective-bargaining agreements with the Union. In so finding, the ALJ reasoned that the agreement did not have a valid work preservation purpose because it was "not limited to addressing the labor relations of SMG vis-a-vis its own employees, but instead seeks to regulate the labor policies of other, neutral employers by requiring them to have agreements with the Carpenters, an objective that is clearly secondary." Decision & Order at 4. The ALJ also rejected the Petitioners' defense that the work involved in trade shows was protected by the construction industry proviso to § 8(e). The ALJ held that SMG was not an employer in the construction industry. He further concluded that the construction industry proviso to § 8(e) was not applicable because the work in question was not "associated with building a structure" and was not being performed at "`the site of the construction, alteration, pain