Court Opinion

ID: 9455602
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:26:49.46401+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:39.193874
License: Public Domain

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur but I add this comment because I feel that the employer deserves some answer to its argument that the back pay award should be denied enforcement. The employer asserts that the award is speculative and that Ozark Trailers, Inc., 161 NLRB 561 (1966), is governing precedent.
In my view the award is not at all speculative. The backpay period is fixed and precise, namely, from the shutdown date of April 21 to the offer-to-bargain date of August 1. This is less than four months and hardly lends itself to a charge of abhorrent speculativeness. The situation in Ozark Trailers is very different for there the back-pay period was open ended and the union was in a position indefinitely to lengthen it by protracted bargaining.
MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge