Court Opinion

ID: 9467922
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:59:45.55483+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:35.688333
License: Public Domain

ROBB, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part:
I concur in Judge Edwards’ opinion except that I would not remand to the Board the matter of the Steward Whitwell.
On the remand the Board of course will be required to reach a conclusion based on the evidence in the record. In my judgment however there is nothing in the record to suggest that Whitwell was entitled to special protection because of his status as a *726union steward. As Judge Edwards points out the questioning of Whitwell “was purely factual in nature, concerning solely the events that occurred at the plant on February 3.” (Op., at 714). In other words Whitwell was interviewed simply as a witness, not as a steward, and the questioning had nothing to do with his activities or functions as a steward. On these facts I think Whitwell’s status as a steward did not insulate him from his duty to disclose what he knew about the incident of February 3.