# National Labor Relations Board v. Hi-Tech Cable Corporation, a Subsidiary of Southwire Company

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · November 14, 1997 · 128 F.3d 271

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9490722

## Case

- **Full name:** NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. HI-TECH CABLE CORPORATION, a Subsidiary of Southwire Company, Respondent
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** November 14, 1997
- **Citations:** 128 F.3d 271; 156 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2940; 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 32079
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wisdom
- **Judges:** Wisdom, Duhé, Barksdale
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the temporal proximity between the unfair labor practices and the withdrawal of recognition allows for a conclusion that employees’ display of disaffection for their union might have been induced by the company’s unlawful actions
- concluding that bargaining conduct was not linked to isolated unlawful statements to employee

## Opinion text

JOHN MINOR WISDOM, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring.
I am satisfied that Hi-Tech approached the bargaining process in good faith.
While I applaud the Company’s insistence on taking steps to preserve the health of its work force, I believe that the Company might have given some consideration to the fact that many of its current, tobacco-addicted employees were hired at a time when smoking was permitted.

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