Firm violated labor law.

Frazier Industrial Co makes carbonized iron storage systems for warehouses. Frazier make opened a plant in Pocatello, Idaho, in March 1996 single of its first employee was a welder, John Ramirez. Ramirez applied for the position at the entreaty of the International Association of Sheet Metal Workers, Local 60 which asked him to help organize the company's workforce.

Shortly after starting at Frazier, Ramirez began to solicit associate employees to attend organizational meetings and to sign union authorization cards. Mike Jennings, a welder who was approached through Ramirez, told his supervisor,