Opinion ID: 405327
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Heading: Interrogations and Threatened Discharge of Employee Gerald Hall

Text: 21 The Company does not dispute that coercive interrogation of employees concerning union activities, under circumstances like those involved in the three interrogations of Gerald Hall, violates section 8(a)(1) of the Act. E.g., Midwest Regional Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. NLRB, 564 F.2d 434, 443 (D.C.Cir.1977); Teamsters Local 633 v. NLRB, 509 F.2d 490, 493-95 (D.C.Cir.1974). Nor does the Company contest that the threatened discharge of an employee for union activities is an unfair labor practice prohibited by section 8(a)(1). E.g., NLRB v. Maywood Plant of Grede Plastics, 628 F.2d 1, 3 (D.C.Cir.1980) (per curiam). The Company contends, however, that the Board erred in finding that the interrogations and threatened discharge of Hall violated section 8(a)(1) because Hall is a supervisor and is therefore unprotected by the provisions of section 8(a)(1). 22 The Board adopted the A.L.J.'s finding that Hall was an employee, and not a supervisor, within the meaning of the Act. John Cuneo, Inc., 253 N.L.R.B. 1025, 1027, 1031-32 (1981); see 29 U.S.C. § 152(3), (11) (1976). The factual judgment of supervisory status, of course, lies ... squarely within the Board's ambit of expertise. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers v. NLRB, 445 F.2d 237, 241 (D.C.Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1039, 92 S.Ct. 713, 30 L.Ed.2d 730 (1972). In the present case, we find the Board's judgment supported by substantial record evidence and fully consistent with applicable precedent. See, e.g., Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers v. NLRB, 445 F.2d at 240-44; Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. NLRB, 420 F.2d 1296, 1300 (D.C.Cir.1969) (per curiam). We therefore decline to set aside the Board's determination that Gerald Hall was an employee within the meaning of the Act, see NLRB v. Hearst Publications, Inc., 322 U.S. 111, 130-31, 64 S.Ct. 851, 860-61, 88 L.Ed. 1170 (1944), and that the interrogations and threatened discharge were therefore unfair labor practices prohibited by section 8(a)(1). 7 23