Columbia Pictures Corp.Download PDFNational Labor Relations Board - Board DecisionsMar 25, 194239 N.L.R.B. 1125 (N.L.R.B. 1942) Copy Citation 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 1 38 N L R B -608 39 N L R. B, No. 211 1125 1126 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 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 " COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP. 1127 (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 1128 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL 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 LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 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 Copy with citationCopy as parenthetical citation