FedEx Freight, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 5, 2015

32-RC-144041 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 5, 2015)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
FEDEX FREIGHT, INC.
Employer
and Case 32-RC-144041
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
OF TEAMSTERS, LOCAL 439
Petitioner
ORDER
The Employer’s request for special permission to appeal the Regional Director’s
denial of its motion to postpone the hearing on objections is granted and the appeal is
denied on the merits.1
KENT Y. HIROZAWA, MEMBER
HARRY I. JOHNSON, III, MEMBER
LAUREN McFERRAN, MEMBER
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 5, 2015.

1 In denying the Employer’s appeal, we note that the Regional Director’s
determination was an exercise of administrative discretion, and we find that the Employer
has not demonstrated that he abused that authority.
Member Johnson notes the Employer’s concern over Johnnie’s Poultry interviews
and specifically that such interviews be carried out in a “context free from employer
hostility to union organization.” He notes that, for past interviews, those facts are what
they are, and also that the Employer is free, for the purpose of future interviews, to add to
the Johnnie’s Poultry requirements anything that it feels will make clear that it lacks
hostility to the right to organize.