National Labor Relations Board, and United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local No. 126, Intervenor v. Edwin R. O'neill, an Individual O'neill, Ltd.

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) petitions for enforcement of two of its orders. In case no. 90-70643, the NLRB petitions for enforcement of an order designed to compensate the Butchers’ and Teamsters’ Unions for unfair labor practices that occurred when Edwin O’Neill closed his meat plant in 1977 and then abruptly reopened it under the auspices of four new corporations just three weeks later. Case no. 90-70645 concerns unfair labor practices that resulted from the plant’s permanent closing in 1981. O’Neill contends that the NLRB erred in holding…