Opinion ID: 781207
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The decertification petition and the removal of the Shapiro work

Text: 4 In May 1997, forty-two of the workers — a majority of the represented unit—signed a petition stating that they no longer wanted the union to represent them. On May 12 Sorrento told the union that it was withdrawing recognition and would not implement an extension of its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that had been agreed to earlier that year. 5 On May 14, 1997, the union requested that Shapiro, whose workers it represented and with whom it also had a CBA, stop sending work to Sorrento. Although there is some dispute as to whether it did so voluntarily, Shapiro complied, pulling its work from Sorrento. This secondary pressure is central to the claims in this case. 6