San Luis Trucking, Inc. and its Alter Ego Servicios Especializados del Colorado, S.A. de C.V., and F

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 22, 2010

356 N.L.R.B. 168 (N.L.R.B. 2010)

DECISIONS OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 168
San Luis Trucking, Inc. and its alter ego Servicios
Especializados Del Colorado, S.A. De C.V., and
Factor Sales, Inc., all a single employer and/or
joint employers and United Food and Commer-
cial Workers Union, Local 99. Cases 28–CA–
20387, 28–CA–20469, 28–CA–20559, 28–CA–
20643, and 28–CA–20743
November 22, 2010
DECISION AND ORDER
BY CHAIRMAN LIEBMAN AND MEMBERS PEARCE
AND HAYES
On February 29, 2008, the two sitting members of the
Board issued a Decision and Order in this proceeding,
which is reported at 352 NLRB 211.1 Thereafter, Re-
spondents San Luis Trucking, Inc. (SLT) and Factor
Sales, Inc. (FS) filed petitions for review in the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cir-
cuit, and the General Counsel filed a cross-application
for enforcement against all three Respondents.2 On June
17, 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued its
decision in New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, 130 S.Ct.
2635, holding that under Section 3(b) of the Act, in order
to exercise the delegated authority of the Board, a dele-
gee group of at least three members must be maintained.
Thereafter, the court of appeals remanded this case for
further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s
decision.
The National Labor Relations Board has delegated its
authority in this proceeding to a three-member panel.3
The Board has considered the judge’s decision and the
record in light of the exceptions and briefs and has de-
cided to affirm the judge’s rulings, findings, and conclu-
sions, to modify the remedy, and to adopt the recom-
mended Order to the extent and for the reasons stated in
the decision reported at 352 NLRB 211 (2008), which is
incorporated herein by reference, as modified below.4
1 Effective midnight December 28, 2007, Members Liebman,
Schaumber, Kirsanow, and Walsh delegated to Members Liebman,
Schaumber, and Kirsanow, as a three-member group, all of the powers
of the National Labor Relations Board in anticipation of the expiration
of the terms of Members Kirsanow and Walsh on December 31, 2007.
Thereafter, pursuant to this delegation, the two sitting members issued
decisions and orders in unfair labor practice and representation cases.
2 SLT and FS subsequently withdrew their petitions for review.
3 Consistent with the Board’s general practice in cases remanded
from the courts of appeals, and for reasons of administrative economy,
the panel includes the remaining member who participated in the origi-
nal decision. Furthermore, under the Board’s standard procedures
applicable to all cases assigned to a panel, the Board Members not
assigned to the panel had the opportunity to participate in the adjudica-
tion of this case at any time up to the issuance of this decision.
4 In accordance with our decision in Kentucky River Medical Center,
356 NLRB 6 (2010), we modify the judge’s recommended remedy by
AMENDED REMEDY
The Respondents, having unlawfully discharged SLT
employees Ignacio Sandoval, Jorge Gonzalez, and Jose
Quezada, must offer them reinstatement and make them
whole for any loss of earnings and other benefits, com-
puted on a quarterly basis from date of discharge to date
of proper offer of reinstatement, less any net interim
earnings, as prescribed in F. W. Woolworth Co., 90
NLRB 289 (1950), plus daily compound interest as pre-
scribed in Kentucky River Medical Center, 356 NLRB 6
(2010).
The Respondents, having unlawfully closed SLT re-
sulting in the layoffs of SLT employees, Jesus Aguilera,
Antonio Macias, Jose Marquez, Blas Martinez, Raymun-
do Salcido, Eduardo Siqueiros, Diana Tenorio, and Jose
Vera, must offer them reinstatement and make them
whole for any loss of earnings and other benefits, com-
puted on a quarterly basis from date of discharge to date
of proper offer of reinstatement, less any net interim
earnings, as prescribed in F. W. Woolworth Co., supra,
plus daily compound interest as prescribed in Kentucky
River Medical Center, supra.
ORDER
The National Labor Relations Board adopts the rec-
ommended Order of the administrative law judge in 352
NLRB 211 as modified below, and orders that the Re-
spondents, Factor Sales, Inc. and San Luis Trucking,
Inc., San Luis, Arizona, and Servicios Especializados
Del Colorado, S.A. De C.V., their officers, agents, suc-
cessors, and assigns, shall take the action set forth in the
recommended Order as modified.
1. Substitute the following paragraph for paragraph
2(k).
“(k) Within 14 days after service by the Region, post at
its San Luis, Arizona facility, copies of the attached no-
tice marked “Appendix”14 in both English and Spanish.
Copies of the notice, on forms provided by the Regional
Director for Region 28, after being signed by the Re-
spondent’s authorized representative, shall be posted by
the Respondent and maintained for 60 consecutive days
in conspicuous places including all places where notices
to employees are customarily posted. In addition to
physical posting of paper notices, notices shall be dis-
tributed electronically, such as by email, posting on an
requiring that backpay and other monetary awards shall be paid with
interest compounded on a daily basis. In addition, we shall modify the
judge’s recommended Order to provide for the posting of the notice in
accord with J. Picini Flooring, 356 NLRB 11 (2010). For the reasons
stated in his dissenting opinion in J. Picini Flooring, Member Hayes
would not require electronic distribution of the notice.

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intranet or an internet site, and/or other electronic means,
if the Respondent customarily communicates with its
employees by such means. Reasonable steps shall be
taken by the Respondent to ensure that the notices are not
altered, defaced, or covered by any other material. In the
event that, during the pendency of these proceedings, the
Respondent has gone out of business or closed the facili-
ty involved in these proceedings, the Respondent shall
duplicate and mail, at its own expense, a copy of the no-
tice to all current employees and former employees em-
ployed by the Respondent at any time since January
2005.