Cudahy Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 6, 1940

24 N.L.R.B. 403 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY and PACKING HOUSE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE , C. I. O.
Case No. R-1718
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 6, 1940
On April 16, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in this
proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by
secret ballot was conducted on May 16, 1940, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the Twenty-first Region
(Los Angeles, California). On May 17, 1940, the Regional Director,
acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Rela-
tions Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
and duly served on the parties an Election Report. No objections
to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed
by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
1. Total number eligible------------------------------------- 847
2. Total number of ballots cast ------------------------------ 721
3. Total number of challenged ballots----- ------------------ 2
4. Total number of blank ballots---------------------------- 2
5. Total number of void ballots------------------------------ 0
6. Total number of valid ballots cast------------------------ 717
7. Total number of votes for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 207 , affiliated
with A. F. L.---------- -------------------------------- 285
8. Total number of votes for United Packing House Workers
of America, Local 107, affiliated with the C . I. 0.-------- 410
9. Total number of votes for neither-------------------------- 22
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National La-
bor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations
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 United Packing House Workers of
America, Local No. 107, C. I. 0., has been designated and selected
1 22 N. L. It. B. 1019.
24 N. L. R. B., No. 32.
403
404 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
by a majority of all employees of "Cudahy Packing Company, Los
Angeles, California, on the plant pay roll of its Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia , plant, including receiving clerks, departmental clerks, route
clerks, scalers, checkers, and shipping clerks, but excluding super
visory employees , subforemen , department superintendents, time-
keepers , time-study men, deputized officers, all other watchmen, wher-
ever located, drivers , Kern County employees , hide take -up gang, and
all employees whose names appear upon the office pay roll, as their
representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and that,
pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act.,
United Packing House Workers of America, Local No. 107, C. I. O.,
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.