Colonial Sugars Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 11, 1942

40 N.L.R.B. 460 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter Of COLONIAL SUGARS COMPANY, GRAMERCY REFINERY and
UNITED SUGAR IVVORKERS LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION, AFFILIATED WITH
CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Case No. R-3492
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 11, 1942
On March 4, 1942 , the National Labor Relations Board issued a
Decision and Direction of Election in the above -entitled proceeding.)
Pursuant to the Direction of Election , an election by secret ballot was
conducted on March 25 , 1942, under the direction and supervision of
the Regional Director for the Fifteenth Region ( New Orleans,
Louisiana ). On March 28, 1942, the Regional Director , acting pur-
suant 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 to the Election Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
The Regional Director reported as follows concerning the balloting
and its results :
Total on eligibility list - ------------------------------------ 657
Total ballots cast--- ------------------------------------- 583
Total ballots challenged----------------------------------- 0
Total blank ballots ---------------------------------------- 1
Total void ballots--- -------------------------------------- 2
Total valid votes counted --------------------------------- 580
Votes cast for United Sugar Workers Local Industrial Union,
affiliated with CIO---- ---------------------------------- 351
Votes cast against United Sugar Workers Local Industrial
Union, affiliated with CIO------------------------------- 229
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 2, as
amended,
139 N L. R. B. 417
40 N. L. R. B, No. 77.
460
COLONIAL SUGARS COMPANY 461
IT Is HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Sugar Workers, Local Industrial
Union No. 1167, affiliated with Congress of Industrial Organizations,
has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and
maintenance employees of Colonial Sugars Company, at its Gramercy,
Louisiana, refinery, including weighers in the wash plant, liquor
runners in the charhouse, defecator men in the defecator house, sugar
boilers on the pan floor, drum men in the granulators, production
clerks in the packing department, the bag clerk in the packing depart-
ment, checkers in the shipping department, clerks in the materials
and supplies storeroom, and dynamo operators in the electrical depart-
ment, but excluding employees listed as foremen and assistant foremen
on the Company's "Classification of Employees," deputies, deputized
watchmen, assistant chemists, bench chemists, yardmen working as
domestics,-' employees of the Company store, employees, who work
exclusively in connection with the swimming pool of the Company,
sack sewers who are temporarily employed by the Company, extra
raw-sugar stackers, the warehousemen in the shipping department,
the checker- in the river-loading department, shift checkers in the
shipping department, house engineers in the engineering department,
process, river pump men, and water purification plant employees, as
their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that,
pursuant to Section- 9 (a) of the Act, United Sugar Workers' Local
Industrial Union No. 1167, affiliated with Congress of Industrial
Organizations, 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.