Florsheim's decision took the form of executive acts emanating from the Pittsburgh meetings of September 8th and 9th.  On September 16th the Pittsburgh store managers went through the motions of asking the part-time employees whether they would work full-time.  One man, a student, was willing to work full-time, but, then, Florsheim abruptly advised him that his available hours were not suited to the store hours of the store to which Florsheim professedly wished to transfer him.  The Florsheim store managers terminated all the part-time employees on the evening of September 18th.  Seven out-of-town employees were transferred into the Pittsburgh area stores to replace the part-time employees.  The part-time employees were terminated without advance notice, and the seven out-of-town employees were transferred to Pittsburghon short notice and at Florsheim's expense.


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The effort to unionize the Pittsburgh area stores had been started in late March, 1975, when the Local 1407 organizer met with two full-time employees and one part-time employee who worked in the Monroeville store.  All three signed membership applications which included a checkoff assignment and authorization.  The Local 1407 organizer gave the three a number of membership applications, booklets entitled "It Pays to Belong," and a pamphlet on employee rights.  The two full-time employees directly and through other employees in other of the five stores extended the organizational effort to all five stores, mainly during August 1975.  By August 28th, when the last three employees signed applications for union membership, seventeen of the twenty-two employees had applied