Operations In Fiscal Year 1988 - National Labor Relations Board

NLRB Jurisdiction 29of participation in decisions relating to hiring, firing, promotion,tenure, and salary increases and their less than absolute academiccontrol.Member Johansen concurred in the assertion of jurisdiction.C. Social Service OrganizationIn United Way of Howard County," the Board, on review of apreelection determination, affirmed the Regional Director's conclusionthat jurisdiction should be asserted over the employer.The employer, a nonprofit corporation, was engaged in the solicitation,collection, and distribution of funds in connection with itsassessment of social service needs and its development of fmancialresources for community social services. The employer'sannual revenues exceeded $1.3 million and it received over$150,000 annually in contributions from out-of-state sources.The majority applied the Board's newly established HispanicFederation jurisdictional standard, which set a $250,000 annualrevenues minimum for all social service organizations not specificallycovered by previously established jurisdictional standards."The Board majority, finding that the employer was asocial service organization not specifically covered by previousstandards and that its annual revenues clearly exceeded the HispanicFederation standard, concluded that it was appropriate toassert jurisdiction.Member Johansen dissented, taking the view that the evidencewas insufficient for application of the Hispanic Federation standardto this particular employer.16 287 NLRB No. 98 (Members Babson, Stephens, and Cracraft; Member Johansen dissenting).17 Hispanic Federation for Development, 284 NLRB No. 50, slip op. at 6 (June 26, 1987).