Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 21, 1941

31 N.L.R.B. 1163 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of CONTINENTAL ROLL & STEEL Fo n DRY COMPANY and
STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE , LOCAL UNION #1026,
AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O.
Case No. R-2549.-Decided May 21, 1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for ceitihcatian
upon consent election
Mr. Stephev, M. Reynolds, for the Board.
Messrs. Winston, Straws, and Shc'zv, of Chicago, Ill., for the Com-
pany.
Mr. John J. Brownlee, of Chicago, Ill., for the S. W. O. C.
Mr. Hugh Gorin7ey, of Indianapolis, Ind., for the A F.-of L.
Mr. Havpold Weston, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
. On March,27 and April 2, 1941, respectively, Steel Workers Organ-
izing Committee, Local Union #1026, herein called the S. W. O. C.,
filed with the Regional Director, for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago,
Illinois) a petition and amended petition alleging that a question
affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of em-
ployees of the Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Company, herein
called the Company, engaged at East Chicago, Indiana, in the design,
manufacture, sale, and distribution of steel castings, various types
of rolling-mill rolls and heavy machinery, and requesting an inves-
tigation and certification of representatives-pursuant to Section 9 (c)
of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the
Act.
On April 11, 1941, the- National Labor Relations- Board, herein
called 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 au-
thorized the Regional Director to conduct it and provide for an appro-
priate hearing upon due notice. On April 23, 1941, the Company,
the S. W. O. C., the American Federation of Labor, Federal Local
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No. 22636, herein called the A. F. of L., and counsel for the Board
entered into a "Stipulation For Certification Upon Consent Election.'
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on May 2, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director among all production maintenance employees of
the Company including watchmen and excluding superintendents,
foremen, assistant foremen, employees in the main office, pattern
makers and pattern makers' apprentices, to determine whether said
employees desire to be represented for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining'by the S. W. O. C., by the A. F. of L., or by neither. On
May 3, 1941, the Regional Director issued his Election Report on the
ballot, copies of which were duly served upon the parties. No objec-
tions to\ the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been
filed by any of the parties.
'In his Election Report the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the ballot and its results :
Total eligible to vote ____________________________ 1156
Total ballots cast_________________________------------------------- ---------------- 1115
Total number of votes cast in favor of the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, Local Union No. 1026, C. I. O.____ 526
Total number of votes cast in favor of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, Federal Local No 22636________________ 558
Total number of votes cast for Neither____________________ 23
Total number of Blank ballots____________________________'_ 2
Total number of void ballots______________________________ 6
Total number of challenged ballots________________________ 0
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 Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Com-
pany, East Chicago, Indiana, within the meaning of Section 9 (c)
and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.'
2. All production and maintenance employees of the Company
including watchmen, and excluding superintendents, foremen;
assistant foremen, employees in the main office, pattern makers, and
pattern makers' apprentices, constitute a unit appropriate for the
purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of Section
9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
3. The American Federation of Labor, Federal Local No. 22636,
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.
CONTINENTAL ROLL & STEEL FOTJNDRY COMPANY 1165
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
Relations Act, -
IT IS HERESY CERTIFIED that American Federation of Labor, Federal
Local No. 22636, has been designated and selected by a majority of
all production and maintenance employees employed by Continental
Roll & Steel Foundry Company at East Chicago, Indiana, includ-
ing watchmen, and excluding superintendents, foremen, assistant
foremen, employees in the main office, pattern makers and pattern
makers' apprentices, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective' bargaining, and that pursuant to the provision of Section 9
(a) of the Act, the American Federation of Labor, Federal Local No.
22636, 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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