American Biltrite Rubber Co., Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 31, 1959

123 N.L.R.B. 501 (N.L.R.B. 1959)

BOSTON WOVEN HOSE AND RUBBER COMPANY 501
1. If a member moves and does not send into the Journal his new
forwarding address, the Post Office Department notifies the Journal
accordingly, and that name is stricken from the Journal mailing
list;
2. Withdrawn and retired members are carried on the membership
roll but must pay $1.20 per year to receive the Journal; at the time of
the 1957 convention, there were approximately 5,000 retired members.
(The International submitted no information on how many sub-
scribed to the Journal.)
3. The names of newly accepted members are not immediately
placed on the Journal mailing list due to clerical delays.
4. A number of National Transit Members of the International
have no permanent address. The International estimates this figure
varies from 2,000 to 2,700 members.
The International maintains that the Journal office does, in some
instances, send 8 to 10 bundles containing 300 to 350 Journals each
to various stewards for distribution to the membership on the site
of the job. There are also some 10 or 12 Subordinate Lodges who
ask for bundles for distribution at the Subordinate Lodge Head-
quarters. These extra bundles for Subordinate Lodges and National
Transient Members contain approximately 1,200 to 1,500 copies.
In addition, the International sends copies of the Financial Report
filed annually with the Secretary of Labor to the Financial Secretary
of each Subordinate Lodge. The Journals refer to this Report,
and give notice that such is available for membership inspection
on request.
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, Division of American
Biltrite Rubber Company, Incorporated 1 and Local 25, Inter-
national Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs, Warehouse-
men and Helpers of America , Petitioner . Case No. 1-RC-5477.
March 31, 1959
DECISION AND ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before a hearing
officer of the National Labor Relations Board. The hearing officer's
rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are
hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the National Labor
Relations Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection
with this case to a three-member panel [Members Rodgers, Jenkins,
and Fanning].
2 The name of the Employer appears as corrected at the hearing.
123 NLRB No. 76.
502 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL. LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the National Labor Relations Act.
2. The labor organization involved claims to represent employees
of the Employer.
3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the represen-
tation of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section
9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act, for the following
reasons:
The Employer and the Intervenor, Local 25, United Rubber, Cork,
Linoleum & Plastic Workers of America, AFL-CIO, advance their
contract as a bar to this proceeding. The Petitioner, seeking a unit
of truckdrivers, contends that the contract is no bar because (1) the
recognition clause refers to "Production and Maintenance" em-
ployees without specifying truckdrivers, and (2) there is a union
shop clause but the Intervenor did not achieve compliance with
the filing requirements of the Act until January 21, 1959, about 2
months after the contract was executed and a few days after the
petition was filed. As to (1), there is testimony that: The Employer
employed 2 to 5 truckdrivers between 1940 and 1957; the contract-
ing parties construed a series of contracts similar to the current
agreement to cover the drivers; 22 over-the-road drivers were hired
between July 1957 and November 1958, of whom 21 had been hired
before the current contract was executed; the Intervenor, over 4
months before the petition was filed, demanded that the Employer
apply the checkoff provision of the contract preceding the current
agreement to the new drivers; and after a few months of delay
occasioned by negotiations for a new contract, a strike, and the
difficulty of contacting drivers returning at odd hours from long
trips, all the new drivers signed checkoff authorization cards. In
these circumstances, we believe that the contracting parties intended
to and did include all the truckdrivers in the contractual unit.2
With respect to (2), we are administratively advised that the initial
steps to achieve compliance were taken prior to November 1958
when the contract was executed. Final compliance was achieved in
January 1959. We find, therefore, that, for the purposes of the
rule stated in the Keystone case with regard to unions out of com-
pliance at the time a rival petition is filed,3 compliance was achieved
within a reasonable period of time. Accordingly, as the petition was
filed after the execution of the contract, we find that the contract
is a bar to this proceeding. We shall, therefore, dismiss the petition.
[The Board dismissed the petition.]
2 Sterling Faucet Company, 119 NLRB 1225.
3 Key8tone Coat, Apron & Towel Supply Company, 121 NLRB 880.