Opinion ID: 2971034
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Heading: a major profit gain over the previous year.”

Text: Ishikawa has presented the defense that it had a legitimate We find that Ishikawa has not met its burden of establishing business reason for its decision, and thus, it would have made by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have made its decision to reduce the employees’ bonuses even absent any the same decision regardless of the fact that its employees anti-union motivation. Ishikawa argues that its deteriorating were engaged in protected activity. Gen. Fabrications Corp., financial condition motivated its decision to reduce the 222 F.3d at 226. Ishikawa’s asserted business justification is employees’ bonuses. Ishikawa relies on National Labor simply unpersuasive in light of its increased productivity and Relations Board v. Citizens Hotel Company, 326 F.2d 501 profitability and because even the sparse financial information (5th Cir. 1964), in support of this argument. In Citizens that Ishikawa had provided warned of its lack of reliability. Hotel, the Fifth Circuit found that even though the Hotel had Indeed, the letter introducing the financial information warns established a practice of paying its employees a Christmas that “[w]e have not audited or reviewed the accompanying bonus, its decision to end the practice did not establish an financial statements and, according[ly], do not express an anti-union motivation in light of the Hotel’s financial opinion or any other form of assurance on them.” situation. Id. at 506. We find Ishikawa’s reliance on Citizens Hotel misplaced. Nos. 02-1167/1310 Ishikawa Gasket Am. v. NLRB 11 Based on the foregoing, we AFFIRM the decision of the Board and GRANT the Board’s petition for enforcement of its order.