Court Opinion

ID: 9457762
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:32:34.350818+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:30.128951
License: Public Domain

PELL, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I approve of and concur in Judge Sprecher’s opinion. However, I do so, insofar as approving the final paragraph of the “Notice to Employees” is concerned, on the basis that this paragraph as I construe it is necessarily limited to what it plainly states.
As a result of the opinion the six paragraphs of the “Notice” are now pared to four. The final paragraph reads as follows:
“We Will Not in any like or related manner interfere with, restrain, or coerce our employees in the exercise of their right to self-organization, to form, join or assist any labor organization, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”
On first reading, the reach of this paragraph would seem to be substantially beyond what would reasonably be indicated by the quite minimal antiunion history of the Company. Even though the Company took no exception to the breadth of the “Notice,” I do not find a basis for saddling an employer with an unmerited order.
However, on further examination of the paragraph in question, it appears to me that it is controlled by the key words of limitation, “in any like or related manner” and thereby confined in its scope to the three previous paragraphs dealing with restraint activities “like or related to” the prohibited employees’ association and the solicitation rule.