Court Opinion

ID: 9462750
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:49:13.569321+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:45.667779
License: Public Domain

BARRETT, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur in light of the authorities supportive of the opinion and the Board’s apparent “well settled” rule that interference, restraint and coercion under Section 8(a)(1) of the Act does not turn on an employer’s good faith, lack of guilty scienter or motive.
I feel that the employer in the case at bar did everything reasonably or practicably possible to avoid a Section 8(a)(1) violation. The Board’s “well settled” test does, in my judgment, impose an obligation on the employing company to insure or guarantee that none of its supervisory personnel shall say or do anything threatening or coercive. This rule does, in effect, impose the doctrine of strict liability upon the employer, regardless of good faith efforts which are evidenced in this record. There is nothing fair about the application of such a rule leading to a finding of an unfair labor practice.