Opinion ID: 578010
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Heading: Threats Concerning the Fate of Anti-Union Employees

Text: 14 Bryant presented declarations by employees to the effect that Union supporters told them that the Union would call a strike if it won and that if the employees did not vote for the Union the Union would not represent them, or they would be laid off or fired. Because the union supporters were rank and file employees and not union agents, their statements are entitled to less weight ... in determining whether a free election was possible. Sonoma Vineyards, 727 F.2d at 865. Even accepting Bryant's employee declarations as true, we agree with the Regional Director that the union supporters' statements constituted individual speculation and normal campaign puffery, and did not rise to the level of threats and intimidation. Questioning the Regional Director's interpretation or inferences of fact is insufficient to establish that the election's outcome should be set aside. Pinetree Transportation Co. v. NLRB, 686 F.2d 740, 745 (9th Cir.1982).