Court Opinion

ID: 9481838
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:33:26.136165+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:36.752469
License: Public Domain

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I agree with the Sixth and Tenth Circuit cases rejected by the majority, at 178-79. Crestline Memorial Hospital Ass’n v. NLRB, 688 F.2d 243, 245 (6th Cir.1982); Jefferson County Community Center v. NLRB, 732 F.2d 122, 125 n. 3 (10th Cir.1984). A private entity should not be able to immunize itself from the labor laws by declaring that a public official or body may remove its directors, especially when the entity can unilaterally revoke its declaration in the unlikely event any such removals are threatened. There is not a scintilla of evidence that the city of Princeton exercises any control over this employer, has ever interfered in the employer’s labor-management relations, or has any inclination to exercise the illusory powers the employer professes to have bestowed upon it. The labor laws should not be so easily evaded. I would enforce the Board’s order.
I respectfully dissent.