Yorba Linda Country Club

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 13, 1972

199 N.L.R.B. 730 (N.L.R.B. 1972)

730 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Yorba Linda Country Club: Yorba Linda Ranch Co.,
Inc.; Don The Beachcomber Enterprises: YLCC,
Inc.; California Golf, Ltd.; Golf of Southern Califor-
nia, Ltd.; Beachcomber Golf and Manufacturing,
Maintenance Industrial and General Construction
Workers, Local 652, affiliated with Southern Cali-
fornia District Council of Laborers , both affiliated
with Laborers' International Union of North Ameri-
ca, AFL-CIO, Petitioner. Case 21-RC-12441
October 13, 1972
DECISION AND ORDER
BY MEMBERS JENKINS, KENNEDY, AND PENELLO
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9(c) of
the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, a
hearing was held before Hearing Officer Theodore B.
Horn. Following the hearing and pursuant to Section
102.67 of the National Labor Relations Board Rules
and Regulations and Statements of Procedure, Series
8, as amended, by direction of the Acting Regional
Director for Region 21, the case was transferred to the
Board for decision.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the
National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board has delegated its au-
thority in this proceeding to a three-member panel.'
The Board has reviewed the Hearing Officer's
rulings made at the hearing and finds that they are
free from prejudicial error. They are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board
finds:
YLCC, Inc., leases certain land in Yorba Linda,
California, and is engaged in the operation and man-
agement of the Yorba Linda Country Club thereon.
The Petitioner seeks to represent certain employees of
YLCC, Inc.
During 1971, the Yorba Linda Country Club, a
private club (operated then by another corporation as
set forth below), had total gross revenues of approxi-
mately $605,000 of which $300,000 represented dues
and initiation fees from members and the remaining
$305,000 represented revenue from all other sources.
YLCC, Inc., contends that the Board should not
assert jurisdiction because its operations do not sat-
isfy the jurisdictional standard for retail enterprises.
The Board decided in Walnut Hills Country
Club 2 that the retail standard is the applicable stan-
dard for operations of a private golf and country club.
The Board, in determining whether or not the gross
' The Petitioner's request for oral argument is hereby denied as, in our
opinion , the record in this case adequately presents the issues and positions
of all the parties
2 145 NLRB 81
volume of such a business meets the Board's retail
standard, has declined to include members' dues and
initiation fees as income derived from the retail opera-
tions? Contrary to the Petitioner's contention, this
rule applies even though the club is run for profit .4
Thus it is clear that the Yorba Linda Country Club
operation does not satisfy the Board's $500,000 an-
nual gross revenue jurisdictional standard for retail
enterprises as established in Carolina Supplies and Ce-
ment Co.5
The Petitioner contends, however, that the Yorba
Linda Country Club operation is so inextricably en-
twined with certain other enterprises that the gross
revenue of all of these enterprises should be combined
in order to establish that the Board's jurisdictional
standard is satisfied.
The record reveals that until February 1, 1972,
Yorba Linda Country Club was owned and operated
by Yorba Linda Ranch Co., Inc., which was owned in
its entirety by Joseph Drown .6 Drown also owned 59
percent of the stock in Don The Beachcomber Enter-
prises. Beachcomber Golf was a wholly owned subsid-
iary of Don The Beachcomber Enterprises and owned
and operated four public golf courses.
On February 1, 1972, California Golf Ltd., a
partnership, purchased Yorba Linda Ranch Co., Inc.,
from Drown and Beachcomber Golf from Don The
Beachcomber Enterprises. On or about March 1,
1972, California Gold, Ltd., organized YLCC, Inc.,
and Golf of Southern California, Ltd., to operate and
manage the Yorba Linda Club and four public golf
courses, respectively. Since that time, the partnership,
California Golf, Ltd., has retained the ownership of
the land on which Yorba Linda Country Club is locat-
ed and a leasehold interest in the land on which the
four public golf courses are situated. YLCC, Inc.,
owns the operating assets , such as equipment and
licenses , and is engaged in operating and managing
the club. Golf of Southern California, Ltd., similarly
owns the operating assets and is engaged in operating
and managing the four public golf courses. Yorba
Linda Ranch Co., Inc., and Beachcomber Golf have
ceased to exist.
California Golf, Ltd., YLCC, Inc., and Golf of
Southern California, Ltd., are all owned by the same
individuals: David Price has a 60-percent interest in
each entity and members of his family own virtually
all of the remaining 40 percent. At the time the peti-
tion herein was filed in late November 1971, David
Price also owned about one half of one percent of the
stock of Don The Beachcomber Enterprises. He was
3 Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (Chargers Country Club), 139 NLRB
741
° Rancho Los Coyotes Country Club, 170 NLRB 1773
s 122 NLRB 88, 89
6 The gross revenue figures referred to above were in fact those of Yorba
Linda Ranch Co., Inc
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then, and remained at the time of the hearing, presi-
dent of Don the Beachcomber Enterprises and a
member of its board of directors.
The facts recited herein provide insufficient basis
for considering Don the Beachcomber Enterprises,
Yorba Linda Ranch Co., Inc., or Beachcomber Golf
as a single employer with YLCC, Inc. Nor does the
record otherwise furnish any basis for so concluding.
We turn then to the relationship between YLCC,
Inc, and California Golf, Ltd., and Golf of Southern
California, Ltd., which matter was more fully devel-
oped at the hearing. California Golf, Ltd., has no
employees and no jurisdictional facts concerning it
appear 7 but the combined gross revenue of YLCC,
Inc., and Golf of Southern California, Ltd., if consid-
ered a single employer, would be sufficient to satisfy
the Board's applicable standard for asserting jurisdic-
tion.
• The office for Golf of Southern California, Ltd.,
is located many miles from Yorba Linda; purchases
of materials, equipment, and supplies are made sep-
arately and locally; and insurance for the two corpo-
rations is separate. There is no temporary interchange
between the employees of YLCC, Inc., on the one
hand and the four public golf courses on the other,
and evidence of permanent interchange is minimal
7 As noted above, its assets consist of the land ownership of leaseholds at
the various clubs and operations are all controlled by the two operation and
management companies.
and limited to the closing of one of the public courses
formerly operated by Beachcomber Golf. The record
further reveals that management and labor relations
policies concerning YLCC, Inc., are made by its man-
ager, Hughes , while such matters involving the em-
ployees of the four public golf courses are made by
Bums, manager of Golf of Southern California, Ltd.
Hiring , firing, and day-to-day operations at YLCC,
Inc., are controlled by its manager Hughes and, sim-
ilarly, Burns controls such matters involving the em-
ployees of Golf of Southern California , Ltd. There is
no evidence of common management or labor rela-
tions between the two corporations , and indeed the
record shows affirmatively that Price plays no active
role in management or labor relations.
As it is clear that each of the companies is, in fact,
managed independently of the others , and in view of
the other factors described above , we are unable to
conclude that their relationship is such as to justify
treating them as a single employer for jurisdictional
purposes .8 As jurisdiction over YLCC, Inc., cannot be
asserted on any other basis consistent with our estab-
lished standards , we shall dismiss the petition.
ORDER
It is hereby ordered that the petition herein be,
and it hereby is, dismissed.
8 Justru Realty Corporation, 156 NLRB 1 ; Gerace Construction, Inc., 193
NLRB No. 91.