Entergy Mississippi, Inc. v. NLRB, No. 14-60796 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseEntergy filed a petition with the Board, arguing that Entergy's dispatchers are supervisors under Section 2(11) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. 152(11). The Board affirmed the ALJ's decision that dispatchers are not supervisors under Section 2(11). About the same time that Entergy first filed its petition to reclassify dispatchers as supervisors, it demanded that intervenor, the Union, remove all references to dispatchers from the collective-bargaining agreement. Entergy refused the Union's request to bargain and the Board subsequently filed a charge against Entergy for violation of Section 8(a)(1) and (5) of the NLRA. The Board granted summary judgment and held that Entergy had violated Section 8(a)(1) and (5). The court affirmed the Board's decision in all but one respect: the court reversed the Board's determination that dispatchers do not “assign” field employees to “places” through the exercise of "independent judgment." The court remanded for further proceedings. The court denied the Board's request for enforcement.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on March 3, 2016.
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