Court Opinion

ID: 9467084
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:38:02.409629+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:09.066549
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STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. This is not a case where the employer placed a time limit on the duration of the reinstatement rights of economic strikers. The employer simply required that applicants renew their request for employment within six months. Failing to do so resulted in their removal from the recall list. It is my view that the Company’s requirement was entirely reasonable and in keeping with the suggestions made by the court in American Machinery, supra, and by the Board in Brooks Research, supra, cited by the majority at 564.
We have been advised that the record discloses that the unit contained from two to three hundred people. At the time of the hearing, only nine strikers had not been recalled and were claiming that they were still interested in returning to work. Of the twenty to thirty strikers who were not recalled during the first six months after their application and who renewed their applications, all have been recalled. One of the two charging parties, Billy Ray Hall, is the husband of a striker who had not been recalled during the first six months after her application, had renewed her application in timely fashion and had been recalled. Yet Billy Ray Hall, who brought her to work daily, failed to renew his application.1 It is difficult to believe that he inadvertently failed to renew it.
I would deny enforcement of the Board’s order requiring immediate and full reinstatement and back pay to the nine employees who failed to renew their request for reinstatement six months from their original request, discharging if necessary any new employees hired since the expiration of the six-months limitation.
Cause having been previously resubmitted to the Court en banc on the briefs of the parties without oral argument, it is now hereby ordered that enforcement of the -Board’s order is denied by an evenly divided Court.

. Respondent’s brief p. 15.