Court Opinion

ID: 9464364
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:31:30.671476+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:35.383286
License: Public Domain

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge,
concurring and dissenting.
I concur in the majority’s disposition of all the issues except that dealing with the denial of the 1973 wage increase. Here, I would grant enforcement. The hearing officer had an ample evidentiary basis for the *1132finding that the denial of the wage increase was motivated in part by a management expectation that the union would get the blame.
I am not persuaded by the “advice of counsel” defense. This is not a case of an employer who was faced with a true dilemma. The hearing officer had the right to believe the evidence that the plant manager had told at least one employee, after two years of successive matching pay increases, that, by joining the union, the employees had “blown it” for the next increase.