Opinion ID: 695495
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Post-February 2 Applications and Hiring

Text: 9 Fourteen other former strikers attempted to apply for jobs at some point in February. 4 They generally identified themselves as former strikers and were informed that there were no openings in the meat department or that the store was not giving out any more job applications. Only Joe Huerta was able to submit an application, and he never heard back from Southwest. 10 Over the next nineteen months, 5 sixty meat department vacancies were filled yet no former strikers were hired for any of these positions. According to Schroat, [i]n most cases, I was promoting apprentices and part-time people into full-time situations, but that did not mean that ... strikers were not considered. Tr. 447. He said that he considered those strikers from whom he had applications, namely Danmon and Huerta, if I needed full-time [employees], and that this could have [occurred] off and on several times. Id. As to why, in particular, he declined to hire Danmon and Huerta, Schroat testified that I guess it was probably because of the previous experience I had with the production. He provided no further specifics or documentation. ALJ Decision, slip op. at 14 (Feb. 20, 1985). With respect to Danmon he testified alternatively that, over her fourteen years of employment, Danmon's problems lasted a year or so, that they were off and on, and they could be two, three years. Tr. 452-53. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) rejected Schroat's explanation of his refusal to hire Danmon and Huerta as pretextual. 6