
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, May 15, 1990                   TAG: 9005150546
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

NLRB OKS COMPLAINT AGAINST GREYHOUND

A federal investigator says Greyhound engaged in unfair labor practices in the 10-week-old drivers' walkout - a potential victory for the union because it could force the company to give the drivers their jobs back.

Jerry Hunter, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, authorized the board's regional office in Milwaukee on Monday to file an unfair labor practice complaint against Greyhound, sources said.

If the NLRB files the complaint and it is eventually upheld, it could force Greyhound to give back to union members the 3,000 jobs that the company gave to strikebreakers since the walkout began March 2.

Union president Edward Strait said he considered Hunter's ruling a major victory because if upheld, "it protects the seniority of our drivers."

Greyhound said it would appeal any such complaint and predicted it would eventually win the issue. It noted that Hunter's ruling rejected a claim that the company had failed to bargain in good faith and instead focused on a more narrow issue.

"The replacement drivers we have hired have permanent jobs. That has not changed. . . . We are confident we will prevail, and we will appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, should that be necessary," said Greyhound Vice President Anthony Lannie.

Hunter concluded that Greyhound unlawfully put into effect certain bargaining proposals before an impasse was reached in negotiations, said sources who demanded anonymity.

by CNB