Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

Community Hospital1 appeals the ruling of the National Labor Relations Board that it violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA2 by interfering with its employees’ exercise of their Section 7 rights. The Board found that the Hospital violated the rights of Nurse Irene Weinman by issuing a warning notice to her on September 26, 1974, in connection with comments she made concerning the Hospital on a television interview program. Nurse Helen Fields’ rights were found to be violated by the Hospital’s removal of her name from an “on-call” list3 on October 10, 1974, and the refusal…