Court Opinion

ID: 8914059
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-27 04:15:13.63744+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:08:48.490333
License: Public Domain

ROSS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
In my opinion, the decision of the Board to certify IBEW as the representative of a separate unit (of four electricians) is both unwise and in direct opposition to the practice of 71 of the 72 plants engaged in wall-to-wall production using the two-piece process, including Metal Container’s other two plants. (See pp. 1310 and 1311 of this opinion.)
Inasmuch as consistency in making such unit determinations is neither followed by the Board nor required under many of the applicable cases, I find myself having to agree that the substantial evidence rule has been minimally complied with here even though its application is an affront to ordinary logic and common sense. The practical result will be to give the IBEW unit of only four employees an inordinate amount of leverage in contract negotiations even though a substantial majority of the 110 production employees may have ratified a negotiated labor agreement.