United States Ninth Circuit

A successor employer forfeits its unilateral right to set initial terms of employment by announcing to the former employees of its unionized predecessor that there will be no union at the new company should they apply to work there.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/13/1999
• Decided 11/22/2000
• Published 11/22/2000

Judges

• Before:  BOOCHEVER, O'SCANNLAIN and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharon I. Block, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C., for the petitioner., Henry M. Willis,Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner-intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Larry Walraven, O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, California, for the respondent.