Cutler-Hammer, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 22, 1974

214 N.L.R.B. 203 (N.L.R.B. 1974)

AIL, A DIVISION OF CUTLER-HAMMER, INC. 203
AIL, A Division of Cutler-Hammer , Inc.' and Commu-
nications Workers of America , AFL-CIO, Peti-
tioner . Case 29-RC-2491
October 22, 1974
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
BY CHAIRMAN MILLER AND MEMBERS JENKINS
AND KENNEDY
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9(c) of
the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, a
hearing was held before Hearing Officer Bruce Kett-
ler of the National Labor Relations Board. Follow-
ing the close of the hearing the Regional Director for
Region 29 transferred the case to the Board for deci-
sion. Thereafter, the Employer and Petitioner filed
briefs.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the
National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board has delegated its au-
thority in this proceeding to a three-member panel.
The Board has reviewed the Hearing Officer's rul-
ings made at the hearing and finds that they are free
from prejudicial error. They are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this proceeding, the
Board finds:
1. The Employer, hereafter also referred to as
AIL, is a corporation with its principal place of busi-
ness in Deer Park, New York, where it is engaged in
the production and sale of electronic equipment and
systems. During the past year, it sold products valued
in excess of $50,000 from its New York plants direct-
ly to other firms located outside New York State.
The parties stipulated, and we find, that the Employ-
er is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the
Act, and that it will effectuate the purposes of the
Act to assert jurisdiction herein.
2. The labor organization involved claims to rep-
resent certain employees of the Employer.
3. A question affecting commerce exists concern-
ing the representation of certain employees of the
Employer within the meaning of Section 9(c)(1) and
Section 2(6),and (7) of the Act.
4. The appropriate unit:
The Employer has three plants within 10 miles of
each other on Long Island, New York, one of which
is at Deer Park, one at Melville, and one at Farming-
dale.' Most of the Employer's Long Island manufac-
turing operations are subsumed within divisions re-
porting to the Employer's vice president for opera-
1 As corrected at the hearing.
2 The Employer also has plants on the west coast, none of which is in-
volved in this proceeding.
tions. These divisions, and the approximate number
of employees in them, are as follows: Antenna Sys-
tems Division (40); Radiations Systems Division
(230); Reconnaissance and Surveillance Division
(105); Technical Support Division (325); Product
Support Division (1,400); Special Programs (25);
Transportation Systems Division (176); and Applied
Electronics Division (125). All but the last three divi-
sions are located at Deer Park. The Transportation
Systems Division is located at Farmingdale and the
Applied Electronics Division and Special Programs
are located at Melville.
In addition to the above, manufacturing opera-
tions are also carried on in a division of the Employ-
er known as Ailtech, in which there are approximate-
ly 120 employees, and in the Central Research
Group, in which there are approximately 30 employ-
ees. Ailtech is at Farmingdale, and the Central Re-
search Group is at Melville. The general manager of
Ailtech reports directly to-the Employer's president
and the director of the Central Research Group re-
ports to the Employer's vice president for plans and
business development.
The Petitioner seeks to represent all hourly rated
production and maintenance employees and all
weekly rated technicians of.the Employer at the three
Long Island plants, excluding "all clerical employees,
professional employees, sales employees, supervisors
and guards as defined in the Labor Relations Act,"
all Ailtech employees, certain employees in the Cen-
tral Research Group, and all currently represented
employees.' The Employer contends that the request-
ed unit is underinclusive and therefore inappropriate.
While the parties did not reach agreement as to the
unit placement of Ailtech employees, they did agree
that, except as to them, all hourly rated employees
and weekly rated technicians 5 in classifications listed
on Attachment A be included in the unit, that all
weekly and monthly rated employees in classifica-
tions listed on Attachment C. be excluded from the
unit,6 and that the unit found appropriate should en-
compass the three • Long Island plants' and no
J The Employer 's drivers are currently represented by a local union of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Otherwise, there is no history of
collective bargaining involving employees at the three Long Island plants.
These are production and maintenance employees.
5 Certain engineering and senior engineering associates . a classification
comprised of technical employees which the parties agreed to include in the
unit, work in the Employer's quality assurance department . The work they
perform and skills they possess differ substantially from those of other engi-
neering and senior engineering associates , and the Employer is currently
considering changing their classification to reflect this fact . The parties did
not agree to include them in the unit . For the reasons set forth infra. we shall
permit them to vote subject to challenge.
6 These employees are office clerical , professional or managerial employ-
ees. or otherwise lack a community of interest with unit employees.
r A question was raised by the Petitioner at the hearing as to the propriety
of including in the unit production and technical employees at the Melville
Continued
214 NLRB No. 42
204 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
others. Inasmuch as the record supports the inclu-
sions or exclusions stipulated to or agreed upon by
the parties, we accept them.
The parties dispute the unit placement of the fol-
lowing classifications or groups of employees, all of
which the Employer contends are production, techni-
cal, or plant clerical employees and should be includ-
ed in the unit, and which the Petitioner contends are
clerical, administrative, or managerial employees, or
otherwise lack a community of interest with unit em-
ployees, and should be excluded from the unit:
Ailtech Production, Maintenance , and Technical
Employees
Petitioner contends that Ailtech production, main-
tenance, or technical employees should be excluded
from the unit in view of the fact that Ailtech primar-
ily produces electronic equipment for use by the pub-
lic, whereas AIL produces such equipment principal-
ly for the Government or the armed services, and
that Ailtech functions as, and probably is, a separate
corporation, and thus Ailtech employees do not
share a sufficient community of interest with AIL
employees to warrant their inclusion in the unit.
While not conclusive on the question of Ailtech's
corporate status, the record does establish that Ail-
tech employees are on the AIL payroll, accumulate
job seniority on a multiplant rather than a divisional
basis, and share lunchroom and parking areas with
AIL employees, and that there is no difference what-
soever between the wage structure, working condi-
tions, job classifications, fringe benefits, and labor
policies applicable to Ailtech employees and those
applicable to other employees in the requested unit.
Thus, it is clear, as the Employer contends, that Ail-
tech production, maintenance, and technical employ-
ees share a close community of interest with unit em-
ployees sufficient to require their inclusion in the re-
quested unit. Accordingly, we shall include Ailtech
employees in the unit if they are in classifications
which would otherwise be included.
Senior Planner, Planner, and Assistant Planner 8
There are approximately 70 planners, most of
plant in Special Programs, which is engaged in research and development
work under contract with the United States Government on highly classi-
fied electronic equipment . As both the Employer and the Petitioner now
concur in the inclusion of these employees in the unit , and as it appears that
they are engaged in production work and otherwise share a community of
interest with other unit employees , we shall include them in the unit.
9 Throughout this Decision , classifications in dispute will be grouped in
descending order of responsibility or experience , e.g., senior planner, plan-
ner, and assistant planner , and a generic term will be used to refer to the
entire group : e.g.. "planner" will be used to refer to all classifications of
planners.
whom work in the manufacturing, planning and con-
trol department of the Product Support Division, the
Employer's principal manufacturing division. Their
desks are in a mezzanine area overlooking the pro-
duction floor at the Deer Park plant. Small numbers
of planners also are assigned to such areas or pro-
grams as the Special Repair Activity section or the
TPX-42 program in the Technical Support Division,
the Radiation Systems Division, and Ailtech.
Planners perform clerical functions related to the
production process, such as requisitioning parts,
checking whether they have arrived on schedule, re-
leasing parts assemblies into the production process,
checking to see that each item to be manufactured
proceeds through the manufacturing process as
scheduled, and attempting to resolve delays in pro-
duction. In performing these functions, planners
spend substantial amounts of time, averaging as
much as 60 to 80 percent of their working day, in
production areas. These functions do not require the
exercise of technical skills. Since planners perform
work that is intimately related to the production pro-
cess and spend substantial proportions of their work-
ing time in plant areas, we find that they are plant
clerical employees and shall include them in the
unit.'
Project Coordinator A, B, and C, and Engineering
Coordinator
Most engineering coordinators and project coordi-
nators are assigned to divisions other than the Prod-
uct Support Division. With certain exceptions, they
perform the same production control functions as do
planners. The project coordinators who do not per-
form these functions are as follows: a project coordi-
nator A who works as a stock clerk in the Product
Support Division electrical assembly toolcrib, anoth-
er who runs a stockroom in the Transportation Sys-
tems Division, another in the test operations section
of the Product Support Division, who requisitions
material and schedules work, project coordinators A
and B who work in the printed circuit fabrication
area, and a project coordinator B who works as a
stock clerk in the Radiation Systems Division stock-
room. The record also indicates that project coordi-
nators are assigned to the business development and
business operations sections of the Reconnaissance
and Surveillance Division, but reveals virtually noth-
9Centnry Electric Company. 146 NLRB 232, 240 (1964): Sperry Piednrnm
Company. Division of Sperry Rand Corporation, 162 NLRB 857, 859, 861
(1967): Container Research Corporation , 188 NLRB 586 (1971): Risdon Man-
ufacturing Company. Inc.. 195 NLRB 579, 581 (1972). Compare Loral Elec-
tronics System , a division of Loral Corporation, 200 NLRB 1019 (1972 ), where
production control coordinators . material clerks . and material planners who
apparently worked exclusively in office areas were found to be office cleri-
cals.
AIL. A DIVISION OF CUTLER-HAMMER, INC.
ing else about them. Except for the last mentioned
project coordinators, product and engineering coor-
dinators either perform the plant clerical tasks of
planners or are involved in ordinary production
functions, and we shall therefore include them in the
unit. As for the project coordinators in the Recon-
naissance and Surveillance Division business offices,
we shall permit them to vote subject to challenge.
Methodsman, Electrical Assembly, Leader, A, B;
Methodsman, Shop, Leader, A, B
Most methodsmen, approximately 19 of 33, are in
the production engineering department of the Prod-
uct Support Divison and work on the second floor of
the Deer Park plant in an area adjacent to the work
location of planners. Of the remaining methodsmen,
two work full time in the Deer Park machine shop,
one in the electrical assembly area, four in the wire
wrap room, six are temporarily assigned to various
shops at Farmingdale and Melville, and one is based
in the traffic control systems department of the
Transportation Systems Division at Farmingdale.
Methodsmen on the second floor at Deer Park are
rotated with those assigned to the Deer Park electri-
cal assembly and machine shop.
The function of methodsmen is to establish the se-
quence of operations for the fabrication and assem-
bly of the Employer's products; this includes the pro-
gramming of machine tools to perform production
operations. Virtually all methodsmen were promoted
from electrical assembly, sheet metal, or machine
shop classifications. Although they are not required
to have any formal educational qualifications, the
work they perform requires the exercise of consider-
able discretion and the skills they possess were ac-
quired through many years of job experience. We
therefore conclude that they are technical employ-
ees."' In view of the fact that methodsmen are regu-
larly rotated to positions on the plant floor, that sev-
eral are permanently stationed there, and that the
classification of methodsman is in the line of progres-
sion from production classifications, we find that
they share a community of interest with other pro-
duction and technical employees sufficient to require
their inclusion in the unit."
10 The De Lava! Separator Company. 97 NLRB 544, 546-547 (1951); Cen-
turv Electric Company, supra. 239; Loral Electronics Systems. supra; see also
Chrysler Corporation-Space Division, Michoud Operations. 154 NLRB 352
( 1965): Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 97 NLRB 1271 (1952).
11 Sperry Piedmont Company. supra. 861, 863 (1967). in which process engi-
neers who performed functions similar to methodsmen were excluded from
a production and maintenance unit, does not require a contrary conclusion.
In that case technical employees apparently were not included in the unit
involved , process engineers were not permanently assigned to production
areas. those process engineers who had been promoted from unit classifica-
tions had been given technical training prior to being promoted , and process
Quality Assurance Analysts
205
Quality assurance analysts work in the quality as-
surance department on the first floor of the Deer
Park plant in an office area containing administra-
tive departments such as procurement. personnel,
publications, and communications. They report to
the director of quality assurance, who reports direct-
ly to the Employer's president; the director does not
supervise any production personnel. The function of
quality assurance analysts is to witness the inspection
of the Employer's products by electrical or mechani-
cal inspectors to ascertain that the required inspec-
tion is performed and that the product conforms
to specifications, and to visit the Employer's
subcontractor's facilities to assure that the subcon-
tractors comply with workmanship specifications es-
tablished by the Employer. Both technical employ-
ees, such as mechanical or electrical technicians, and
nontechnical employees, such as mechanical or elec-
trical inspectors, have been promoted to the classifi-
cation of quality assurance analyst. A number of en-
gineering associates and senior engineering associ-
ates also work in the quality assurance department
performing the same functions as the quality assur-
ance analysts.
The record does not indicate what skills are uti-
lized by quality assurance analysts and senior engi-
neering associates in quality assurance,12 what are the
frequency and nature of the contacts they have with
production or technical employees, or other factors
which would be critical to the determination of their
unit placement." Accordingly, we shall permit the
quality assurance analysts and engineering and se-
nior engineering associates in the quality assurance
department to vote subject to challenge.
Logistics Analyst Leader, Senior Logistics Analyst,
and Logistics Analyst
Logistics analysts are based in the logistics section
of the manufacturing, planning, and control depart-
ment, Product Support Division, in an office area on
the second floor of the Deer Park plant. They report
to the supervisor of documentation and the supervi-
sor of provisioning, who supervise other nonunit em-
ployees but no other unit employees. Of the 12 logis-
engineers progressed into excluded classifications . These factors, which are
not present here, were crucial to the conclusion that their interests were
dissimilar to those of production and maintenance employees.
12 The only evidence on this point is that the Employer is considering
changing the title of engineering and senior engineering associates in quality
assurance to senior quality assurance analyst. since they do not have the
technical skills normally possessed by engineering and senior engineering
associates.
'*I See Ambrosia Chocolate Division of W. R. Grace & Company, 202
NLRB 788 (1973).
206 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
tics analysts, all but 2 were hired from outside AIL.
One of the two who was hired from the inside was a
technical clerk, a clerical position, and the other held
a position in the sheet metal shop. No formal techni-
cal education is required of logistics analysts, but en-
try level analysts need 1 year's experience in related
work, while senior level analysts need 3 to 5 years'
experience and the logistics analysts leader needs 5 to
7 years' experience.
Logistics analysts perform three basic functions.
First, they prepare lists of spare parts for use by AIL
customers in ordering such parts.14 The information
on these lists is copied from documents on file in the
planning area. Second, they identify depictions of
product parts in a so-called Illustrated Parts Break-
down, or [PB, which is a pictorial representation of
AIL products illustrating how the parts are assem-
bled into the final product and showing the identify-
ing number of each part. The publications depart-
ment produces the IPB. Logistics analysts contact
publications personnel in the course of its produc-
tion, and may also go onto the plant floor to view the
object to be depicted in the IPB. Finally, logistics
analysts review notices of changes in the engineering
of AIL products and notify customers who own the
products involved when engineering changes would
involve changes in the spare parts for such products.
Logistics analysts' work is functionally related to
the production of materials by the publications de-
partment, not to the Employer's manufacturing oper-
ations. They spend most of their time at their desks
in an office area, have infrequent and generally insig-
nificant contacts with production employees, and are
separately supervised. Most were hired from outside
the Company, and thus there is no progression from
production classifications into the logistics analysts
classifications. Finally, there is no evidence that the
work they perform requires the exercise of technical
skills or that they possess any.15 In view of these fac-
tors, we conclude that logistics analysts do not share
a sufficient community of interest with unit employ-
ees to warrant their inclusion in the unit, and accord-
ingly, we shall exclude them.
Reproductions Clericals, and Offset Printer, Leader,
A, and B
There are two principal reproductions centers at
Deer Park. The first is on the first floor, is bounded
by the publications department, a computer room, a
14 Contrary to the assertion in the Employer's brief, the record establishes
that logistics analysts do not recommend which parts should be purchased.
15 These factors distinguish this case from Leland Electric Company, 126
NLRB 406, 409-411 (1960), and Loral Electronics Systems, supra, on which
the Employer relies.
plant stockroom, and a mailroom-first-aid area, and
is situated on both sides of a wall dividing the general
office area from the plant floor. The second is on the
second floor in an office area adjacent to a blueprint
control station. Clerks, an intermediate clerk, a se-
nior clerk, reproductions clerks, and offset printers
work in the first floor reproduction center, and re-
productions clerks work in the second floor center.
The first floor reproduction employees are super-
vised by the supervisor of reproduction, whose office
is in the general office area. The Supervisor of repro-
duction also supervises photographers, whom the
parties excluded from the unit by stipulation. The
second floor reproduction employees are supervised
by the supervisor of design and drafting, who also
supervises nonunit employees. Both supervisors ulti-
mately report to the department head of the Techni-
cal Support Division, a division principally com-
prised of such nonproduction sections as publica-
tions, library, technical writing and documentation,
industrial arts, drafting, and product design support.
The first floor reproductions center performs re-
productions work for the entire Deer Park operation,
while the second floor reproductions area appears to
serve the design and drafting departments primarily.
There is some interchange between clericals in the
first and second floor reproduction centers. In view
of the fact that Deer Park reproductions personnel
work either in or next to office areas, that their super-
visors also supervise nonunit employees, that they
work in physical proximity to nonunit employees,
and that the Technical Support Division is primarily
composed of office employees,16 we find that. the re-
productions personnel in the first and second floor
reproductions centers at Deer Park have a closer
community of interest with office clerical than with
plant clerical or production employees' and, accord-
ingly, we shall exclude them from the unit. Since the
record contains no information as to the work loca-
tion or supervision of reproductions center personnel
at the Famingdale and Melville plants, we shall per-
mit them to vote subject to challenge.
Inspection Coordinator, Leader, A
There is one employee classified as inspection
coordinator leader. He works in the receiving inspec-
tion area on the main floor of the Deer Park plant,
an area where AIL-purchased material is tested for
conformity with AIL specifications. His functions
are to assign work in the test area in accordance with
instructions received from the supervisor of test, and
16 These factors distinguish this case from Brown Engineering Company.
Inc.. 123 NLRB 1619 (1959). cited by the Employer, in which reproductions
personnel were included in a production unit.
AIL, A DIVISION OF CUTLER-HAMMER, INC.
to assist employees, such as test or development tech-
nicians, in setting up and carrying out test proce-
dures. The Employer requires that the inspection
coordinator have 10 years' experience in test proce-
dures, but does not require formal technical experi-
ence. In view of the fact that he provides guidance to
technical employees in carrying out their duties and
is required to have had prolonged experience in test
operations, we find that the inspection coordinator
leader is a technical employee. Since he works on the
plant floor performing functions closely related to
the production process, we shall include him in the
unit.
All employees classified as inspection coordinator
A, a total of five, work in the production engineering
section of the manufacturing engineering department
on the second floor of the Deer Park plant. They are
classed in the same weekly wage classification as are
such technical classifications as instrument, test, and
development technician A. Their principal function,
which is similar to that performed by methodsmen, is
to detail the proper sequence of inspection proce-
dures involving the Employer's products and to assist
professional engineers in the design of special test
equipment and devices to aid in inspections. They
are not required to have formal technical education,
but must have from 8 to 10 years' experience in test
procedures. Since the work they perform requires the
exercise of discretion and highly developed technical
skills, we find that they are technical employees. As
technical employees, they share a community of in-
terest with other technical employees engaged in var-
ious test procedures. We therefore shall include them
in the unit.
Packaging Specialists and Packaging and Shipping
Coordinator
A packaging specialist and three packaging and
shipping coordinators work in the packaging and
shipping area on the main floor of the Deer Park
plant, an area which is administered by the manufac-
turing, planning and control department of the Prod-
uct Support Divison. A packaging and shipping spe-
cialist also works iri the packaging and shipping area
of Ailtech at the Farmingdale plant. The packaging
specialists maintain stores of material used in pack-
aging the Employer's products, determine the correct
packaging for such products, requisition packaging
materials, and work either alone or with packaging
and shipping clerks," who are included in the unit, in
building and shipping complex packages.
17 There are no packaging and shipping clerks at Ailtech, so the packag-
ing and shipping specialist there performs what would otherwise be their
work.
207
The packaging and shipping coordinators perform
clerical tasks connected with the packaging and ship-
ping operation, such as preparing shipping forms,
contacting shippers to pick up and deliver shipments,
and so forth. Since employees in the classifications in
question work on the plant floor, perform the same
work as packaging and shipping clerks who are in-
cluded in the unit, and work directly with the
Employer's product, we find that they share a com-
munity of interest with production employees suffi-
cient to require their inclusion in the unit.
Senior Expeditor, Expeditor, and Dispatcher
Employees in these classifications, which are ad-
ministratively within the manufacturing, planning,
and control department of the Product Support Divi-
sion, work in 12 dispatching and expediting stations
located in various areas on the plant floor at Deer
Park. These stations are not walled off from sur-
rounding production areas and consist simply of
benches on which records are kept relating to the
items being manufactured in a given area. Expedi-
tors' and dispatchers' function is to maintain records,
fill production employees' requests for materials
from stockrooms, and to take whatever action they
can to facilitate the movement of products through
the particular production stage they are in. Since ex-
peditors and dispatchers perform clerical tasks asso-
ciated with the production process and,work on the
plant floor, we find them to be plant clericals and
accordingly shall include them in the unit.18
Coordinator of Test Instrumentation and
Instrument Coordinator
Employees in these classifications are administra-
tively part of the instrument resources section, manu-
facturing engineering department, Product Support
Division. Two employees are classified as coordina-
tors of test instrumentation, one of whom works in
an instrument depot area at the Deer Park plant and
the other of whom divides his time between instru-
ment,depot areas at Farmingdale and Melville. In-
strument coordinators are assigned to each of the
just-mentioned depot areas. The instrument re-
sources depot at Deer Park is located in a building
adjacent to the plant floor; a variety of employees in
the unit also work in the building. The depots at
Farmingdale and Melville are both in the shop areas.
The function of coordinators of test instrumenta-
tion and instrument coordinators is to disburse test
instruments to and transfer them between various
18 Sperry Piedmont Company, supra, 859: Container Research Corporation.
supra, 587.
208 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
unit employees who need them, and to record the
location of all instruments. Since employees in the
classifications in question work in the same areas as
production employees, handle test equipment used
by unit employees in evaluating the performance of
the Employer's products, and come into frequent
contact with unit employees, we find that they are
plant clerical employees who share a community of
interest with production and maintenance employees
sufficient to require their inclusion in the unit.
Semiconductor Fabricator Development, Leader, A,
B, and C
Employees in this classification work in the Cen-
tral Research Group, which is located at the Melville
plant. Although this group is administratively not a
part of the Employer's manufacturing operations-as
noted earlier, the Central Research Group manager
reports to the Employer's vice president for plans
and business development, not to the vice president
for operations-it is engaged in manufacturing. The
product it manufactures is a highly sophisticated
semiconductor which in turn is incorporated in a var-
iety of the Employer's products. Semiconductor fab-
ricators, along with such unit employees as engineer-
ing associates and development and mechanical
technicians, carry out the manufacturing process.
Since semiconductor fabricators work with unit
members and are actually engaged in production
work, we shall include them in the unit.
Plant Clericals
Clericals in the classifications of clerk, intermedi-
ate clerk, senior clerk, clerk-typist, technical clerk,
and blueprint control clerk work on the plant floor in
the three Long Island plants in such areas as material
control, central dispatch, receiving inspection, pack-
aging and shipping, and blueprint control station
number five, and also work in plant areas where pro-
duction personnel, such as superintendents or super-
visors of shops, test, special repair activity, printed
circuit assembly, manufacturing, or instrument re-
sources, have their desks. Clericals in the just-men-
tioned classifications also assist unit employees
working in project planning, methods, and field oper-
ations. As these clericals all work either in produc-
tion areas or with unit employees in production-relat-
ed areas, we find that they share a substantial com-
munity of interest with unit employees requiring their
inclusion in the unit.
On the basis of the foregoing, the parties' stipula-
tions, and the entire record, we find that the follow-
ing employees of the Employer constitute a unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining
within the meaning of Section 9(b) of the Act.
All hourly and weekly rated production,
maintenance, plant clerical and technical em-
ployees of the Employer (including those listed
on Attachments A and B) at the Employer's
plants located at Deer Park, Melville, and Farm-
ingdale, Long Island, New York, but excluding
all currently represented employees, all office
clerical, professional, managerial, or sales em-
ployees (including all weekly and monthly rated
employees listed on Attachment C), all other
employees, and all supervisors and guards as de-
fined in the National Labor Relations Act.
Although the unit we thus find appropriate differs
from that sought by the Petitioner, we shall not dis-
miss the petition inasmuch' as the Petitioner has not
specifically disclaimed interest in such unit and the
Petitioner has an adequate showing of interest in the
larger unit. If the Petitioner does not now desire to
participate in an election in the unit found appropri-
ate herein, we shall permit it to withdraw its petition
without prejudice upon written notice to the Region-
al Director within 10 days from the date of this Deci-
sion.
[Direction of Election and Excelsior footnote omit-
ted from publication.]
ATTACHMENT A
Hourly rated production and maintenance
classifications
Electrical Assembler A.B.C.D. Leader and
Trainee
Mechanical Assembler A,B,C and Leader
Bench Hand
Chemical Finisher
Custodian A,B and Leader
Engraver
Finish Area Leader
Electrical Inspector'A,B,C,D and Leader
Mechanical Inspector A,B and Leader
Machine Operators A (Operating boring mill.
brake, drill press, engine lathe, grinder, milling,
punch press, shear, spot welding and turret lathe ma-
chines)
Machine Operators B (operating brake, drill press,
milling, punch press, shear and turret lathe ma-
chines)
Machine Operators C (operating drill press and
punch press machines)
Machinist All-Around A,B
AIL, A DIVISION OF CUTLER-HAMMER, INC. 209
Machinist, Experimental and Leader
Machinist General
Machinist Repairman
Machine Shop Leader
Material Handler
Maintenance Man A,B,C, Lubricator and Leader
Packaging Clerk A,B, Leader and Trainee
Paint Sprayer
Receiving Clerk A,B, Leader and Trainee
Sheetmetal Experimental Worker and Leader
Sheetmetal Worker A,B,C, Grinder, Leader and
Trainee
Shop Helper and Trainee
Shipping Clerk A
Silk Screener A
Stock Clerk A,B, Leader and Trainee
Tool Crib Tender
Electronic Tester A,B
Combination Welder
Wiring Specialty Leader
Weekly rated technicians
Development Technician A,B,C
Development Technician- Mechanical
Engineering Associate and Senior Engineering
Associate
Graphic Arts Technician
Instrument Technician A,B,C and Leader
Materials Laboratory Technician
Mechanical Research Technician
Technical Representative and Senior Technical
Representative
Technician Trainee
Test Technician A,B,C and Leader
ATTACHMENT B
Clericals, including clerk, intermediate clerk, se-
nior clerk, clerk-typist, technical clerk, and blueprint
control clerk, working in plant areas, or in project
planning, methods, or field operations
Coordinator of Test Instrumentation
Dispatcher
Engineering Coordinator
Expeditor and Senior Expeditor
Inspection Coordinator A and Leader
Instrument Coordinator
Methodsman, Electrical Assembly, A,B, and
Leader
Methodsman, Shop, A,B, and Leader
Packaging-Shipping Coordinator
Packaging Specialist
Planner , Assistant Planner , and Senior Planner
Project Coordinator A,B, and C
Semi-conductor Fabricator Development A,B,C
and Leader
ATTACH M ENT C
Accountant
Accounting Clerk A,B
Accountant General, AILTECH
Assistant Supervisor, Material Control
Assistant Stores Supervisor
Assistant to Operations Manager, AILTECH-E
Buyer and Assistant Buyer
Classified Document Control Leader
Mail Clerk A,B and Leader
Personnel Clerk
College Cooperative
Computer Operations Control Leader
Computer Librarian
Computer Operator and-Senior Computer
Operator
Cashier
Customer Service Coordinator
Data Recorder, Leader and Senior
Designer A,B,C and Design Leader
(including Plant Engineering Designer A and C)
Draftsman A,B
Driver, and Driver Leader
Purchasing Expeditor
Financial Management Operations Assistant
Guard
Assistant Chief Guard
Industrial Artist and Leader
Industrial Engineering Analyst
Keypunch Operator Trainee
Nurse
Personnel Assistant
Photo Laboratory Assistant
Photographer and Chief Photographer
Proofreader
Process Integration Specialist-Applied
Electronics
Computer Programmer A,B
Property Administrator and Trainee
Publications Illustrator, A,B,C, Checker and
Leader
Publications Typist and Leader
Receptionist
Reliability Laboratory Supervisor
Reorder Specialist-Applied Electronics
Secretary
Secretary, Executive Vice President/President
Executive Secretary
Senior Secretary
Specifications Writer
Standards Coordinator
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Supervisor-Quality Assurance-AILTECH Technician Mathematician B
Warehouse Supervisor Telephone Operator and Chief Telephone
Tabulating Machine Operator Operator