Columbia Steel Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 5, 1942

39 N.L.R.B. 498 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY and STEEL WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, LOCAL UNION No. 2571, C. I. O.
Case No. R-3574.-Decided March 5, 1942
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon consent election.
Mr. Ken Hunter, of South San Francisco, Calif., for the Union.
Mr. Gerard J. Manack, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On January 8,1942, and February 3,1942, Steel Workers Organizing
Committee, Local Union No. 2571, C. I. 0., herein called the Union,
filed with the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region (San Fran-
Cisco, California) a petition and an amended petition alleging that a
question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation
of employees of Columbia Steel Company, San Francisco, California,
herein called the Company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of
steel and steel products at Pittsburg, California, 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 February 4, 1942, the Company, the Union, and the
Regional Director entered into a "STIPULATION FOR CERTIFI-
CATION UPON CONSENT ELECTION." On February 5, 1942,
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 provide for an appropriate hearing
upon due notice.
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on February 12, 1942, under the direction and supervision of
the Regional Director among all salaried employees of the Company "
,at its Pittsburg, California, plant, who were on the pay rolls of the
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Company as of January 29, 1942, exclusive of supervisory-(supervisors
in charge of any classes of employees), administrative, and confiden-
tial employees, watchmen and guards, and trainees who do not occupy
regular salaried positions not otherwise excluded, to determine
whether or not said employees desired to be represented by the Union.
On,February'13, 1942, the Regional Director issued and duly served
upon the parties her Election Report on the ballot. No objections to
the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any
of the parties. '
In her Election Report, the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the balloting and its results :
Total number of eligible to vote----------------------------- 172
Number of votes for Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
Local No. 2571, C. I. 0------------------------------------ 104
Number of votes against Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
Local No. 2571 , 0. I. 0 ----------------------------------- 33
Total number of votes counted------------------------------- 137
Number of blank ballots------------------------------------- 0
Number of void ballots------------------------------------- 0
Number'"of challenged ballots-- ------------------------------ I.
Upon the basis of the stipulation, the Election 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 Columbia Steel Company, San Francisco;
California, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6)
and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All salaried employees of the Company at its Pittsburg, Cali-
fornia, plant, exclusive of supervisory (supervisors in charge of any
classes of employees), administrative, and -confidential employees,
watchmen and guards, and trainees who do not occupy regular
salaried positions not otherwise excluded, constitute a unit appro-
priate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within the meaning
of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
3. Steel Workers Organizing Committee, Local No. 2571, C. I. 0.,
has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees
in the above unit as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining, and is the exclusive representative of all the employees
in said unit within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the National
Labor Relations Act.
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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,
` IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
Local No. 2571, C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a ma-
jority of the salaried employees of Columbia Steel Company at its
Pittsburg, California, plant, exclusive of supervisory (supervisors
in charge of any classes of employees), administrative, and confi-
dential employees, watchmen and guards, and trainees who do not
occupy regular salaried positions not otherwise excluded, 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, Local No. 2571, 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 employment,
and other conditions of employment.
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