Court Opinion

ID: 9453217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:07:05.828699+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:34.250888
License: Public Domain

FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
In affirming the board’s decision that the so-called process supervisors are not supervisors within the meaning of section 2(11), the fact that they are only in charge of 1 to 3 operators has some significance, along with other facts mentioned in the opinion by Judge SCHNACKENBERG. Further, some operators are not under the control of process supervisors and some process supervisors do not always have operators working under them. Had the board found for the company there would be 47 “supervisors” for 105-115 employees. It appears that the work actually performed by the men involved did not change substantially at the time of the September 29 bulletin.
The board could well deem these men, though called “process supervisors”, not part of management.