Cudahy Brothers Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 8, 1938

5 N.L.R.B. 877 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter df CUDAHY BROTHERS PACKING, Co., A CORI'ORATION and
PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION
Case No. R-475
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
Marcia 8, 1938
On January 27, 1938, the eNational Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election 1 in the,
above-entitled case. The Direction of Election provided that an elec-
tion by secret ballot be held within fifteen (15) days from the date
of the Direction among the production and maintenance employees,
employed by Cudahy Brothers Company 2 at its Cudahy, Wisconsin,
plant on October 16, 1937, excluding clerical workers, office workers,
supervisory employees, and part-time and temporary employees, and
excluding also those employees who had quit or had been discharged
for cause prior to the election, to determine whether they desired
to be represented by United Packinghouse Workers Local 491,$
or by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America, Local 222, for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by
neither.
Pursuant to the Direction, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on February 10, 1938. Full opportunity was accorded to all
of the parties to this investigation to participate in the conduct of
the secret ballot and to make challenges. On February 11, 1938,
Nathaniel S. Clark, Regional Director for the Twelfth Region (Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin), acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as
amended, issued his Intermediate Report Upon Secret Ballot, copies
of which were duly served upon all parties to the proceeding. No
exceptions to the Intermediate Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
14 N. L It . B. 1171.
2 The Board 's order directing Investigation and hearing erroneously referred to Cudahy
Brothers Company as "Cudahy Brothers Packing Co , a corporation."
2 Prior to the hearing , the name of petitioner, Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union,
had been changed to United Packinghouse Workers, Local 491
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As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible-------------------------------------- 1059
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 811
Ballots cast for United Packinghouse Workers, Local No. 491,
C. I. 0-------------------------------------------------- 406
Ballots cast for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America, Local No. 222, A. F. of L.__--_- 243
Ballots cast for neither union ------------------------------- 153
Ballots protested ------------------------------------------ 3
Blank ballots---------------------------------------------- 3
Void ballots----------------------------------------------- 3
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re-
lations Act and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of Na-
tional Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as
amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Packinghouse Workers, Local
No. 491, has been designated and selected by the majority of the
production and maintenance employees of Cudahy Brothers Com-
pany, at its Cudahy, Wisconsin, plant, excluding clerical workers,
office workers, supervisory employees, and part-time and temporary
employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act, United Packinghouse Workers, Local No. 491, 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.