PUERTO RICO FOOD PRODUCTS CORP. v. N.L.R.B.

No. 79-1407.

619 F.2d 153 (1980)

PUERTO RICO FOOD PRODUCTS CORP., Tradewinds Food, Inc., and Island Can Corp., Petitioners, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Lespier, Hato Rey, P. R., with whom Angel Munoz Noya and Lespier & Toro, Hato Rey, P. R., were on brief, for petitioner.

Howard E. Perlstein, Washington, D. C., with whom William A. Lubbers, General Counsel, John E. Higgins, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, Robert E. Allen, Acting Associate Gen. Counsel, Elliott Moore, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, and Allison Beck, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for respondent.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners challenge the Board's conclusion that the protest of five employees over the discharge of their supervisor was protected concerted activity for which they could not be discharged lawfully.

Petitioner Puerto Rico Food Products is engaged in the business of processing and canning food products. On the morning of March 3, 1977, it fired Leocadio Perez, a supervisor in its labelling department, who had been with the...

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