Opinion ID: 1484593
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Employees Hired Outside California.

Text: There is an item of complaint regarding employees hired outside the State of California. We think the Board's statement in its brief satisfactorily covers the point. Because of the labor shortage in the area of its operations, petitioner hired a number of employees outside the State of California at agreed rates and job classifications. Upon their arrival in San Diego, petitioner reduced the wages or job classifications of 21 or 22 of them without previous notice to or consultation with the Union which represented them   . When the Union sought to take up these cases as grievances, Labor Relations Director Wiseman [1] refused to take any action on them   . It was not until after intervention by a Department of Labor Conciliator that petitioner reconsidered its action and made a compromise adjustment of these cases   . We hold that the Company's action constituted an interference with the right of collective bargaining as defined in § 7 of the Act.