Opinion ID: 496585
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Heading: boarding up the load

Text: 6 We pause at the foot of the ramp leading to our recital of the proceedings before the Board in order to remark upon some familiar topography: 7 [T]he NLRB's findings of fact are conclusive if bottomed upon substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole. Provided the findings are so supported, the courts ought not disturb the Board's choice between competing views, or its credibility determinations. After all is said and done, conflicts and contradictions in the evidence, within the broadest of parameters, are for the Board to resolve. 8 Teamsters Local Union No. 42 v. NLRB, 825 F.2d 608, 612 (1st Cir.1987) (citations omitted). 9 A hearing on Bodeli's charge was held before an administrative law judge (ALJ). Following the hearing, the ALJ found, among other things, that: (1) Sears, not Bodeli, made the decision to shift the burden of the platform work; (2) Bodeli had not the slightest control over that decision; (3) the union's real dissatisfaction was with Sears, not Bodeli; (4) Local 25 utilized proscribed tactics, including the strike, in an attempt to force a neutral employer (Bodeli) to press Sears to restore the work; and (5) the union's course of conduct constituted an unfair labor practice. The ALJ recommended extensive remediation, to include that Local 25, its officers, agents, and representatives, cease and desist from: 10 (a) Registering, filing or processing grievances against Boston Deliveries, Inc., demanding compliance by Boston Deliveries, Inc. with awards obtained as a result of such grievances, or striking or picketing Boston Deliveries, Inc., where an object thereof is to force or require Boston Deliveries, Inc. to cease doing business with Sears, Roebuck & Co. or any other person. 11 (b) In any other manner or by any other means, engaging in or inducing or encouraging any individual employed by Boston Deliveries, Inc. or by any other person engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce, to engage in, a strike or a refusal in the course of his employment to transport or otherwise handle or work on any goods, articles, materials, or commodities, or to perform any services, or threatening, coercing or restraining Boston Deliveries, Inc. or any other person engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce, where in either case an object thereof is to force or require Boston Deliveries, Inc. to cease doing business with Sears, Roebuck & Co. or any other person. 12 The ALJ also ordered that various affirmative steps be undertaken, such as the withdrawal of all pending grievances which purported to challenge Sears' assignment of platform work in-house; discontinuance of the union's counterclaim in the federal district court action; and reimbursement of the payments which had been made to the six original grievants under the NEJAC award. 13 The Board, for the most part, affirmed and adopted the ALJ's findings, conclusions, rulings, and remedial order. See Local Union No. 25 (Boston Deliveries, Inc.), 282 N.L.R.B. No. 138 (Jan. 30, 1987). 1 There was, however, one point of departure. Although the Board agreed that the union's entire course of conduct amounted to perpetration of an unfair labor practice, it found no need to pass on whether the [union's] filing and processing of grievances alone constitutes unlawful secondary activity. Id. at n. 1. These proceedings ensued.