Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board DecisionsApr 14, 1942

40 N.L.R.B. 532 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of CARNEGIE - ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION and STEEL. WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE , AFFILIATED WITH THE Ci. I. O. Case No. R-3400.-Decided April 14, Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation, for certification, upon pay-roll check. Mr. Paul B. Conaghan, of Chicago, Ill., for the Company. Mr. Lee Pressman, of Washington, D. C., Mr. Arthur J. Goldberg, and Mr. John J. Bro2bnlee, of Chicago, Ill., for the Union. Mr. Gerard J. Manack, of counsel to the Board. DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES STATEMENT OF THE CASE On November 8, 1941, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affili- ated with the C. I. 0., herein'called the Union, filed with the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois) a petition alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of employees of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, herein called the Company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of sheet steel and tin at its Sheet and Tin Mills, Gary, Indiana, and in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products at its Gary Steel Works, Gary, Indiana, and requesting an investigation and certification of representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On November 29, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III, Section 3, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, ordered an investigation and authorized the Regional Director to conduct it and to provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice. On December 15, 1941, the Com- pany and the Union entered into a "STIPULATION FOR CERTI- FICATION UPON PAYROLL CHECK" for each of the units here- inafter found to be appropriate. Pursuant to the stipulations, pay-roll checks by comparison of union designations with the November 15, 1941, pay roll of the Com- 40N.L R B, No 96 532 CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION 533 pang were made during the periods from January 12 to 15, 1942, and from February 4 to March 2, 1942, respectively, for the Sheet and Tin Mills and the Gary Steel Works, under the supervision of the Regional Director to determine : (1) the number of employees of the -Company at its Sheet and Tin Mills, Gary, Indiana, excluding fore- men, assistant foremen, supervisors in charge of any classes of labor, watchmen, guards, and clerical and salaried employees, who designated the Union as their bargaining agency-; and (2) the number of em- ployees of the Company at its Gary Steel Works, Gary, Indiana, excluding foremen, assistant foremen, supervisors in charge of any -classes of labor, watchmen, guards, and clerical and salaried employees, who designated the Union as their bargaining agency. On March 30, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to the stipulations, issued and duly served upon the parties his Payroll Check Report. No objections to said Report have been filed by any of the parties. In his' Report the Regional Director reported that the comparison of the union designations with the pay roll of the Company showed that 7,085 out of 8,050 eligible employees of the Sheet and Tin Mills, and 16,566 out of 17,589 eligible employees of the Gary Steel Works, .authorized the Union to represent them for the purposes of collective bargaining with the Company with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of work, and other conditions of employment. Upon the basis of the stipulations, the Payroll Check Report, and -the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following : FINDINGS OF FACT 1. A question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre- sentation of employees of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act. 2. All employees of the ,Company's Sheet and Tin Mills, Gary, Indiana, excluding foremen, assistant foremen, supervisors in charge -of any classes of labor, watchmen, guards, and clerical and salaried employees, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act. 3. All employees of the Company's Gary Steel Works, Gary, Indi- ana, excluding foremen, assistant foremen, supervisors in charge of any classes of labor, watchmen, guards, and clerical and salaried em- ployees, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act. 4. Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees in the 534 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR' RELATIONS 'BOARD above units as their representative for the purposes of collective bar- gaining and is the exclusive representative, of all the employees in said units within the, meaning- of Section -9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act. CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES 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, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees of the Gary, Indiana, Sheet and Tin Mills of Carnegie -Illinois Steel Corporation , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, ex- cluding foremen, assistant foremen, supervisors in charge of any classes of labor, watchmen , guards, and clerical and salaried employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to the provision of Section 9 (a) of the Act, Steel Workers Organizing , Committee , affiliated with the C . I. O., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of em- ployment, and other conditions of employment. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the C . I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees of, the Gary ( Indiana ) Steel Works of Carnegie -Illinois Steel Corporation , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, ex- cluding foremen , assistant . foremen, supervisors in charge of any classes of labor, watchmen , guards, and clerical and salaried employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to the provision of Section 9 (a) of the Act;' Steel Workers Organizing Committee , affiliated 'ith-'the C . I. 0., is the exclusive representative of all such employees ' for the purposes of collective 'bargaining in respect to rates-of pay, wages , hours of em- ployment , and other conditions of employment.