United States Fourth Circuit

Before adding employees of a separate department to an union-represented collective bargaining unit, the NLRB must determine both whether the two departments are separate and, if not, whether the two departments have an overwhelming community of interest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/25/2001
• Decided 07/18/2001
• Published 07/18/2001

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges, and LEE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  Jeremy Paul Sherman, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Baltimore Sun. Steven B. Goldstein, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Board. Robert Edward Paul, Zwerdling, Paul, Leibig, Kahn, Thompson & Wolly, P.C., Washington, DC, for Intervenor. ON BRIEF:  Kristin E. Michaels, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Baltimore Sun. Leonard R. Page, General Counsel, Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Julie B. Broido, Supervisory Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C., for Board.