In the case of Anheuser-Busch v. NLRB, 4th Cir., No. 02-1740, the National Labor Relations Board reiterated that employees have the right to specify the union representative of their choice that they would like to be present during an investigative interview, and that absent extenuating circumstances, the employer is obligated to supply that representative. In this case the requested steward was at lunch so the manger summed another steward instead. Both the NLRB and a court of appeals agreed that there were no extenuating circumstances in this case because even though the requested steward was at lunch, he was set to end his lunch in 15 minutes, which made him no less available than the second steward who was in another part of the facility and had to be contacted by radio.