Columbia Pictures Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 23, 1940

28 N.L.R.B. 57 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION, SAMUEL GOLD-
WYN, INC., LTD., LOEW'S, INC., R. K. O. RADIO PICTURES, INC.,
REPUBLIC PRODUCTIONS, INC., HAL ROACH STUDIOS, INC., SELZNICK
INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, INC., 20TH CENTURY Fox FILM CORPORA-
TION, UNIVERSAL PICTURES COMPANY, INC., WALTER WANGER PRO-
DUCTIONS, INC. and SCREEN OFFICE EMPLOYEES GUILD (IND.)
Cases Nos. R-2035 to R-2044,4, inclusive
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 23, 1940
On October 8, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision, Direction of Elections, and Order in the above-entitled
proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, separate elec-
tions by secret ballot were conducted among certain employees of
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Loew's, Inc., R. K. O: Radio Pic-
tures, Inc., Republic Productions, Inc., Hal Roach Studios, Inc.,
Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.,
and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, all of Los Angeles, Cal-
ifornia, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Twenty-first Region (Los Angeles, California). 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 involved therein Election Reports
on the respective ballots. No -objections to the conduct of any of
the ballots or to- the-respective Election Reports have been filed by
any of the parties.
As, to the -balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows:
Columbia Pictures Corporation :
Total on .eligibility list_________________________________ 166
Total ballots cast__________________ ------------------------ 141
Total- ballots challenged_____________________________________ 12
Total blank ballots__________ _____________________ 0
'Total -void ballots------------------------------------------- 0
Total ballots 'not counted____________________________________ 12
Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 129
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)----- --__ 128
Total votes against-Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------- 1
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R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc.:
Total on eligibility list_____________________________________ 235
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 200
Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 19
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total ballots not counted___________________________________ 19
Total ballots counted --------------------------------------- 181
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 176
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind )______ 5
Universal Pictures Company, Inc.:
Total on eligibility list______________________________________ 143
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 133
Total ballots challenged --------------------------------------- 13
Total blank ballots_________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total ballots not counted____________________________________ 13
Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 120
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 117
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) -----
Republic Productions, Inc.:
3
Total on eligibility list_____________________________________ 62
Total ballots cast__________________________________________ 53
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 1
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total ballots not counted__________________ ________________ 1
Total ballots counted________________________________________ 52
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 52
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------ 0
Loew's, Inc.:
Total on eligibility list --------------------------------------- 565
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 452
Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 20
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total ballots not counted____________________________________ 20
Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 432
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 402
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------
Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.:
30
Total on eligibility list_______________________________________ 9
Total ballots cast__________________________________________ 7
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 0
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total ballots not counted___________________________________ 0
Total ballots counted________________________________________ 7
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 5
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------ 2
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20th Century Fox Film Corporation:
Total on eligibility list------------------------------------- 459
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 418
Total ballots 'challenged------------------------------------- 16
Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 0
Total ballots not counted------------------------------------ 16
Total ballots counted ---------------------------------------- 402
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild ( Ind.) --------- 156
Total votes for 20th Century Fox Studio Office Employees Guild_ 242
Total votes for neither--------------------------------------
Hal Roach Studios, Inc.:
4
Total on eligibility list-------------------------------------- 32
Total ballots cast -------------------------------------------- 30
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 1
Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 0
Total ballots not counted----------------------------------- 1
Total ballots counted--------------------------------------- 29
Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 29
Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ----- 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 Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,
secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine
operators, switchboard operators, and messengers, rendering services
at the Los Angeles County studios of the Columbia Pictures Corpo-
ration, including casting clerks,'excluding, however, casting directors
and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the
transportation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks,
personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries
to the following officials : the general production manager, the studio
treasurer and the executive in charge of, public, relations, head of
the legal department, and also excluding those persons who perform
executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a substantial
portion of their working time, or who have the right to hire or fire,
or persons who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and
whose recommendations with respect thereto are generally followed,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that pursuant to Section 9 ('a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative
of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with
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respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions
of employment; and
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,
secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine
operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services
at ,the Los Angeles County studios of R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc.,
including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and
assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the trans-
portation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, per-
sonal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries
to the following officials-' the, general production manager, the studio
treasurer and the executive in charge of public relations, head of the
legal department, comptroller, and also excluding those persons who
perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a sub-
stantial portion of their working time, or who have the right to
hire or fire, or persons who have the right to recommend with respect
thereto and whose recommendations with respect thereto are generally
followed, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act, Screed Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive
representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective
bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and
other conditions of employment; and _
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.).
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, sec-
retarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine
operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services
at the Los Angeles County studios of Universal Pictures Company,
-Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors
and assistant casting directors, outside, messengers attached to the
transportation department, script clerks and laboratory shipping
clerks, personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal
secretaries to the general manager of the studio and the manager of
studio operation, those persons who perform executive, administra-
tive, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their work-
ing time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have the right
to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations are
generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National
Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the
exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of
collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employ-
ment, and other conditions of employment; and
COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION 61
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,
secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine
operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services -
at the Los Angeles County studios of Republic Productions, Inc.,
including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and
assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the trans-
portation department, script clerks and laboratory shipping clerks,
personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, those persons who
perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a
substantial portion 'of their working time or who have the right
to hire or fire, or who have the right to recommend with respect
thereto and whose recommendations are generally followed, as their
representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that
pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,'
Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative'
of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with
respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions of
employment; and
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)'
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,'
secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine
operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services
at the Los Angeles County studios of Loew's, Inc., including casting
clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting
directors, outside messengers attached to the transportation depart-
ment, script clerks and laboratory shipping clerks, personal secre-
taries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the fol-
lowing officials: The executive head of the studio, the studio manager,
the comptroller, the executive head in charge of the cartoon studio,
the executive head in charge of the shorts studio, and executive pro-
ducers who participate with other executives in the framing of gen-
eral studio policies,, those persons who perform executive, adminis-
trative, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their
working time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have
the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommenda-
tions are generally followed, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of
the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Guild (Ind.) is the
exclusive representative of all such employees for the, purposes of col-
lective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment,
and other conditions of employment; and
IT IS I-=By CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)'
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,
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secretarial , and accounting employees , office and tabulating machine
operators , switchboard operators and messengers , rendering services
at - the Los Angeles County studios of Walter Wanger Produc-_
tions, Inc., excluding , however, outside messengers attached to the
transportation department , laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks,
personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries
to any of the following officials : the general production manager, the
studio treasurer, and the executive in' charge of public relations,
and also excluding those persons who perform executive , adminis-
trative, or supervisory duties for a substantial portion of their work-
ing time, or who have the right to hire or fire , or to recommend with
respect thereto and whose recommendations are generally followed,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
Screen Office Employees Guild ( Ind.) is the exclusive representative
of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with
respect to rates of pay , hours of employment , and other conditions
of employment; and
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that 20th Century Fox Studio Office Em-
ployees Guild has been designated and selected by a majority of
office, clerical, secretarial , and accounting employees , office and
tabulating-machine operators , switchboard operators , and messengers,
rendering services at the Los Angeles County studios of 20th Century
Fox Film Corporation , including casting clerks , excluding, however,
casting directors and assistant casting directors , outside messengers
attached to the transportation department , laboratory shipping clerks,
script clerks , personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, per-
sonal secretaries to the following officials : general production man-
ager, executive producer , studio treasurer , and executive in charge
of public relations , and also excluding those persons who perform
executive, administrative , or supervisory functions for a substantial
portion of their working time , or who have the right to hire or fire,
or who have the right to recommend with respect to hiring or firing,
and whose recommendations are generally followed , as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining , and-that pursuant
to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations
Act, 20th Century Fox Studio Office Employees Guild is the exclu-
sive representative of all such employees for the purpose of collec-
tive bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of em-
ployment, and other conditions of employment; and
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)
has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,
secretarial , and accounting employees , office and tabulating -machine
operators , switchboard operators and messengers , rendering services at
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the Los Angeles County studios of Hal Roach Studios, Inc., including
casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant
casting directors, outside messengers attached to the transportation de-
partment, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, personal secre-
taries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the follow-
ing officials: the general production manager, the studio treasurer,
and the executive in charge of public relations, and also excluding
those persons who perform executive, administrative, or supervisory
functions for a substanital portion of their working time or who
have the right to hire or fire, or persons who have the right to recom-
mend with respect thereto and whose recommendations with respect
thereto are generally followed, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a)
of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild
(Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the
purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours
of employment, and other -conditions of employment.