Arbuckle Bros.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 4, 1938

8 N.L.R.B. 810 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of ARBUCKLE BROS. and COMMITTEE FOR INDUSTRIAL
ORGANIZATION ON BEHALF OF EIr1'ro r.ES OF ARBUCKLE BROS.
Case No. R-834
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 4, 1938
On June 28, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board issued a
Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.'
The Direction of Election provided that an election by secret ballot be
conducted within fifteen (15) days from the date of the Direction among
the samplers, checkers, watchmen, sugar warehouse and shipping
employees, porters, elevator operators, boilerhouse employees, assist-
ant foremen, and production and maintenance employees of Margaret
A. Jamison and Martha Jamison, partners doing business as Arbuckle
Bros., New York City, herein called the Company, who were employed
by the Company during the pay-roll period ending March 19, 1938,
excluding foremen, clerical and supervisory employees, and technical,
laboratory and hospital employees, and those who have since quit or
been discharged for cause, to determine whether they desired to be
represented by the Committee for Industrial Organization or by Local
1476, Sugar Refinery Workers, of the International Longshoremen's
Association for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on July 12, 1938, at Brooklyn, New York, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Second
Region (New York City). Full opportunity was accorded to all
parties to this investigation to participate in the conduct of the ballot
and to make challenges. On July 16, 1938, the Regional Director, act-
ing pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, duly served upon
the parties her Intermediate Report dated July 15, 1938, on the secret
ballot. No objections or exceptions to the Intermediate Report have
been filed by any of the parties.
1 7 N L R. B. 1247.
8 N L. R. B.. No. 94.
810
DECISIONS AND ORDERS 811
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total Number Eligible to Vote_______________________________ 875
Total Number of Ballots Cast -------------------------------- 804
Total Number of Ballots Counted____________________________ 780
Total Number of Votes in favor of-
Committee for Industrial Organization , C. I. O----------- 281
Local 1476, Sugar Refinery `Yorkers of the I. L. A--------- 486
Neither Organization ------------------------------------ 13
Total Number of Blank Votes________________________________ 3
Total Number of Void Ballots --------------------------------- 6
Total Number of Challenged Votes___________________________ 15
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, that Local 1476, Sugar Refinery Workers, of
the International Longshoremen's Association, has been selected by a
majority of the samplers, checkers, watchmen, sugar warehouse and
shipping employees, porters, elevator operators, boilerhouse employees,
assistant foremen, and production and maintenance employees of
Margaret A. Jamison and Martha Jamison, partners doing business
as Arbuckle Bros., New York City, excluding foremen, clerical and
supervisory employees, and technical, laboratory and hospital em-
ployees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Local 1476, Sugar
Refinery Workers, of the International Longshoremen's Association,
is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes
of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, and other conditions of employment.
MR. DONALD WAKEFIELD SMITH took no part in the consideration of
the above Certification of Representatives.