Court Opinion

ID: 9474544
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:01:02.885974+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:10.203602
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MERRITT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part.
I would enforce the Board’s order as to Fox as well as Jacobs and Cox. The record supports the Board’s view that the same anti-union animus that led to the firing of the other two also led the company to fire Fox. Fox had received a raise for his work shortly before being fired. The decision to fire him and the others was made suddenly in mid-week. The faulty welding work on which the company expressly relied occurred the day after the decision to fire him was made. There was evidence of a substantial nature from which the Board could find that all three firings were prompted by anti-union views and that the reasons asserted were pretextual.