Columbia Pictures Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 25, 1942

39 N.L.R.B. 1125 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP. and SCREEN OFFICE & PRO-
FESSIONAL KupLo EES' GUILD, LOCAL 109, AFFILIATED WITH U. O. P.
W. A., C. I. O.
Cases Nos. R-3378 to R- 3380, inclusive, respectively.
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 25, 1942
On January 27, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued its
Decision and Direction of Elections in the above-entitled proceeding.,,
Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, elections by secret ballot were
conducted on February 26, 1942, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Second Region (New York City).
On March 11, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article
III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regu-
lations-Series 2, as amended, issued an Election Report, copies of
which were duly served upon the parties: No objections to the con-
duct of the ballot or to the Election Report were filed by any, of the
parties.
As to the balloting and the results,thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
GROUP A
Total on eligibility list______________________________________ 256
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 237
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 3
Total blank ballots_________________________________________ 1
Total void ballots__________________________________________ 0
r Total valid votes counted____________________________________ 233
Votes cast for Screen Office & Professional Employees' Guild,
Local 109, affiliated with U. O. P. W. A., C. I. O.______________ 194
Votes cast against afore-mentioned union_____________________ 39
GROUP B
Total on eligibility list_____ _________________________________ 7
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 7
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 0
Total blank ballots_________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___ ________________________________________ 0
Total valid votes counted____________________________________ 7
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GROUP B-Continued
Total votes cast for Screen Office & Professional Employees'
Guild, Local 109 , affiliated with U. 0. P. W. A., C I. 0.______ 6
Total votes cast against afore -mentioned union--------------- 1
GROUP C
Total on eligibility list______________________________________ 21
Total ballots cast__ __________________________________________ 19
Total ballots challenged _____________________________________ 1
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total valid votes counted ____________________________________ 18
Votes cast for Screen Office & Professional Employees ' Guild,
Local 109, Affiliated with U. 0. P. W. A , C. I. 0_____________ 15
Votes cast against afore -mentioned union_____________________ 3
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 ,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 & Professional Employees'
Guild, Local 109, affiliated with U. O. P. W. A., C. I. 0., has been
designated and selected by a majority of each of the following groups
of employees as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining, and that, pursuant to.Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act, Screen Office & Professional Employees' Guild, Local
109, affiliated with the U. O. P. W. A., C. I. 0., is the exclusive repre-
sentative of each of the following groups of employees for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment :
(a) All office, clerical, secretarial, and accounting employees em-
ployed at the home office of Columbia Pictures Corp., New York City,
located at 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City, including the print,
title, foreign, service, sales promotion, production, film cutting, file,
accounting , advertising sales, accessories service, tabulating, recep-
tionists, industrial film, foreign features, scenario, purchasing, pub-
licity, advertising and publicity, exploitation, sales accounting, sales,
contract, exchange operations, general office, and legal departments,
and stock room and telephone room, but excluding executive officers of
the Company, the print, shipping, personnel, art, and press-book -de-
partments, projectionists, employees who are represented by labor
organizations other than the Union, and employees listed in Appendix
«A "
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(b) All shipping and receiving clerks of Columbia Pictures Corp.,
New York City, employed at the warehouse located at 653 Eleventh
Avenue, New York City, excluding supervisory employees.
(c) All clerical, office, secretarial, accounting, and bookkeeping
employees employed at the Exchange of Columbia Pictures Corp.,
New York City, located at 630 Ninth Avenue, New York City, exclud-
ing the district manager, branch manager, assistant branch manager,
office manager, salesmen, and Bernice Cohen and Myrna Levy.
APPENDIX A
Accessory Service Department :
Ben Morris
Accessory Sales Department :
Harold Sachs
Al Seligman
Accounting Department :
C. W. Sharpe
Bernard Birnbaum
Richard B. Philpott
Maurice Brunet,
C. O. Sleeker .
Charlotte Mandel
Advertising & Publicity Depart-
ment :
David A. Lipton
David A. O'Malley
Miriam Hirschhorn
Frank P. Rosenberg
Hortense Schorr
Sylvia Kossack
Morris J. Meyer
--'Contract Department :
Seth Raisler
Exchange Operations Department :
H. C. Kaufman
B. E. Zeeman
Vincent M. Borrelli
Norma Sulak
Foreign Department :
Jacob Segal
Herman Golden
Arnold M. Picker
Rose Friedman
Mary Koban
Joseph Levy
General Files Department :
Betty Stearns
Film Cutting Department :
Rose Slaten
Lillian Bernstein
Amy Moss
Personnel Department :
John Kane
Nat J. Goldblatt
Fan L. Melman
Sophie Swerlin
Production Department :
Max Cohn
Harry Foster
Telephone Room :
Rose Hand
Service Department :
Stanford White
Night Custodian :
Abraham Hamel
Registered Nurse :
Solveig Hessen
Matron :
Kathleen Gilligan
Handy man :
Andrew Pickhaver
General Executive Department :
Leo Jaffe
N. B. Spingold
F. L. Weber
H. J. Ta'kiff
Hal Hode
Ann Copp
Marie Levenson
Margaret Driscoll
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General Executive Department-
Continued.
Dorothy Feeney
Beatrice Lee
Virginia McCullough
Ruth Greenfield
Mary Mendelson
Freda Prager
Charles Schneer
Legal Department :
Betty Black
Selma Klein
Eva Shapiro
Samuel Reice
Print Department :
W. G. Brennan
Al Schwartz
Sales Department :
A. Montague
Rube Jackter
M. J. Weisfeldt
Louis Weinberg
Louis Astor
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Sales Department-Continued.
Shevie Chason
Irene Danels
Ruth Rosenberg
Margaret Kapfer
Irving Sherman
Purchasing Department : _
Max Seligman
H. L. Smith
Sales Accounting Department :
George M. Josephs
Joseph Freiberg
Dani Weissman
Sales Promotion Department :
Maurice Grad
Lou Melamed
Scenario Department :
Eve Ettinger
Reuel O'Harra
Tabulating Department :
Vincent McGrath
Title Department :
Hannah Kass