California Wool Scouring Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 6, 1938

8 N.L.R.B. 98 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of CALIFORNIA WOOL SCOURING COMPANY and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-447
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 6, 1938
On March 4, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board , herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled proceeding,, On March 21 , 1938, the Board issued
an Amendment to Direction of Election .' On May 21 , 1938, the
Board issued a Second Amendment to Direction of Election.3 The
Direction of Election , as amended , provided that an election by secret
ballot be conducted on or before June 7, 1938, among all employees
of California Wool Scouring Company, San Francisco , California,
herein called the Company , who were on the pay roll of the Company
on September 30, 1937 , excluding executives of the rank of foreman
and above , clerical workers, and those who had since quit or been
discharged for cause , to determine whether they desired to be repre-
sented by Textile Workers Organizing Committee or Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, Local 508, for the purposes of
collective bargaining , or by neither.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election , as amended, an election by
secret ballot was conducted on June 7, 1938 , at San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Twentieth Region (San Francisco , California ). Full op-
portunity was accorded to all of the parties to this investigation to
participate in the conduct of the ballot and to make challenges. On
June 16, 1938, the Regional Director , acting pursuant to Article III,
Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 1, as amended , issued and duly served upon the parties
her 'Intermediate Report on the secret ballot. No objections or ex-
ceptions to the Intermediate Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
15 N. L. R. B. 782.
2 6 N. L. R. B. 101.
8 7 N. L. R. B. 350.
8 N. L. R. B., No. 11.
98
DECISIONS AND ORDERS 99
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Number of votes for Textile Workers Organizing Committee,
C. I. 0--------------------------------------------------- 12
Number of votes for .Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, Local No. 508, A. F. of L----------------------- 22
Number of votes for neither of the above organizations-------- 1
Total number of ballots counted---------------------------- 35
Number eligible to vote------------------------------------- 45
There were no blank, void , or challenged ballots.
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
1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED , that Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen, Local 508, has been selected by a majority of
all employees of California Wool Scouring Company, San Francisco,
California, excluding executives of the rank of foreman and above
and clerical workers, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act,
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, Local 508, 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.
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