The court agreed with the Board that the state lawsuit was preempted with respect to dues from employees on projects not funded by the Davis-Bacon Act, and further ruled that preempted lawsuits are unlawful without regard to the First Amendment analysis of Bill Johnson's Restaurants v. [read post]

Member Schaumber also found it unnecessary to pass on these unfair labor practices found by his colleagues: Supervisor Margeret Johnson's alleged coercive interrogation and threat of job loss of employees Mullanix-Ackerman and Williams; Supervisor Denise Miller's alleged coercive interrogation of Mullanix-Ackerman; and Barroso's threatening employees with unspecified reprisals. [read post]