Opinion ID: 771050
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: the supplemental decision and order of the nlrb

Text: 35 Thereafter, a three-member panel of the Board issued the August 1998 supplemental decision and order that underlies this appeal. See Alaska Pulp III, 1998 WL 600786, at  (1998). Over a strong partial dissent by Member Hurtgen, Chairman Gould and Member Liebman affirmed the ALJ's use of seniority for calculating Alaska Pulp's back-pay obligations. See id. at . The majority also agreed that AlaskaPulp's unlawful failure to offer former strikers their pre-strike jobs made it impossible to tell whether those who resigned to obtain their pension benefits in lump sum expressed a clear choice not to return to the company. See id. Consequently, the majority determined that Alaska Pulp's back-pay obligations to these particular strikers should be calculated without regard to the date of their resignations. See id.; but see id. at -24 (Hurtgen, M., dissenting from the majority's reasoning but partially concurring in the result). Finally, the Board reversed the judge's determination in 17 cases where strikers were said to have tolled their back-pay or abandoned their jobs. See id. at ; but see id. at -27 (Hurtgen, M., dissenting in part). 36 As a remedy, the NLRB ordered that for each discriminatee Alaska Pulp: (1) pay a certain amount of back-pay, plus interest; (2) establish and contribute to a 401(k) plan; and (3) grant a specified amount of credit in its defined benefit retirement program. See id. at . According to Alaska Pulp, the Board's August 1998 ruling increased the company's total liability for back-pay, exclusive of interest and other relief, by approximately $1.6 million, from $5,996,625 to $7,580,386. See Petitioner's Opening Br. at 24. When interest, pension credits, 401(k) contributions, and severance pay are included, this amount may well exceed $11 million. See id. at 24 n. 12.