Builders Iron Foundry

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 17, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 1063 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of BUILDERS IRON FOUNDRY and INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS
AND FOUNDRY WORKERS UNION (A. F. L.)
Case No. R-37'7
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 17, 1942
On May 14, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued its
Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.'
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on June 2, 1942, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the First Region (Boston, Massachu-
setts). On June 3, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to
Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and
Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the
parties an Election Report. No objections to the conduct of the
ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible to vote________________________________ 279
Total number of votes cast__________________________________ 270
Total number of valid votes________________________________ 269
Total number of ballots marked "Yes"________________________ 162
Total number of ballots marked "No"________________________ 107
Total number of blank ballots_______________________________ 0
Total number of void ballots________________________________ 1
Total number of challenged ballots__________________________ 0
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Molders and Foundry
Workers Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,
has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees of
Builders Iron Foundry at its foundry at 9 Codding St., Providence,
140 N L R B 1393
41 N. L. R. B., No. 198.
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1064 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Rhode Island, including all apprentices (except pattern-maker ap-
prentices), but excluding office employees, engineering and drafting
employees, machine-shop employees, guards and watchmen, foremen
and subforemen, pattern makers, their handymen, pattern-maker ap-
prentices, and maintenance men, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (c)
of the National Labor Relations Act, International Molders and
Foundry Workers Union, affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for
the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages,
bours of employment, and other conditions of employment.