KINDRED NURSING CENTERS EAST, LLC v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 12-1027, 12-1174.

727 F.3d 552 (2013)

KINDRED NURSING CENTERS EAST, LLC, dba Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation-Mobile, fka Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner, United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Matthew J. Ginsburg , AFL-CIO Legal Department, Washington, DC, for Intervenor. Charles P. Roberts III , Constangy, Brooks & Smith, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Petitioner/Cross-Respondent. Robert J. Englehart , National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner. ON BRIEF: Matthew J. Ginsburg , American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Legal department, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor. Charles P. Roberts III , Constangy, Brooks & Smith, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Clifford H. Nelson, Jr. , Constangy, Brooks & Smith, Atlanta, Georgia, Edward Goddard , Kindred Healthcare, Wrentham, Massachusetts, for Petitioner/Cross-Respondent. Robert J. Englehart , Amy H. Ginn , Linda Dreeben , National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C., for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner. Thomas V. Walsh , Jackson Lewis LLP, White Plains, New York, Ronald E. Meisburg , James F. Segroves , Lawrence Z. Lorber , Proskauer Rose LLP, Washington, D.C., Mark Theodore , Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, California, Jonathan C. Fritts , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC, Michael J. Hunter , Hunter, Carnahan, Shoub, Byard & Harshman, Columbus, Ohio, Ryan Griffin , Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC, Jennifer L. Branch , Gerhardstein & Branch Co. LPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, Stefan Marculewicz , Littler, Mendelson, P.C., Washington, D.C., David A. Kadela , Tracy Stott Pyles , Littler Mendelson , P.C., Columbus, Ohio, Bernard P. Jeweler , Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Washington, D.C., G. Roger King , Jones Day, Columbus, Ohio, R. Scott Medsker , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.

Before: MARTIN and ROGERS, Circuit Judges; TARNOW, District Judge.


OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

Under federal labor law, workers in the private sector who wish to be represented by a union must petition the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election to determine if a majority of the workers wants union representation. Federal labor law gives the Board wide discretion to delineate the "bargaining unit," the term for the group of workers that will vote on union representation. Kindred Nursing Centers...

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