Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 29, 1955

113 N.L.R.B. 443 (N.L.R.B. 1955)

DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT- COMPANY; INC. 443
There remains the matter of determining whether the new evidence , considered to-
jeether with relevant evidence in the previous record,, establishes Respondents',de-
fense that the applicants made no bona fide attempts to obtain employment . Laying
aside (as the -court did ) the point that Gilker's statements were made during the
course of settlement negotiations , the statements do, of course , constitute evidence
of relevance in support of that defense. But the new evidence does not establish the
defense; it does not refute the testimony of the applicants themselves (still undenied)
as to their need of work and their genuine desire for it, or their denials that they had
been coached by or had received instructions from the union representative as to
how to present themselves . Indeed , Gilker's testimony now corroborates them in the
latter respects . The new evidence thus leaves their testimony uncontradicted and
unimpeached. _
What the new evidence shows is that during the course of the settlement con-
ference Gilker made certain representations which reflected seriously on his good
faith if they were true , and which , if false, reflected on his judgment and his tactics.
What the entire evidence shows is that his representations were false.
In sum , the entire evidence does not establish that the applicants were aware of or,
that they had knowingly participated in a scheme to entrap Respondents into a viola-
tion
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of the Act . Cf. Vaughn Bowen, 93 NLRB 1147, 1179-80. It shows to the=
contrary that the applicants genuinely desired to work for Respondents and would
have accepted the jobs they sought if offered to them. The Babcock & Wilcox Com-
pany, 110 NLRB 2116, distinguishing Vaughn Bowen, supra.
It being concluded and found that the evidence fails to establish Respondents' de-
fense that the applicants made no bona fide attempt to obtain employment, it is ac-
cordingly recommended that the Board reaffirm its previous findings of unfair labor
practices against Respondents.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. and Aircraft Technical Workers
Union , Local No. 1, Petitioner . Case No. 16-RC-1562. July 09,
1955
DECISION AND ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a hearing was held before William H. Renkel, hearing
officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from
prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the Act.
2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent employees
of the Employer.'
3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the represents
tion of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section 9 (c)
(1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act for the following reasons:
The Petitioner seeks to sever from a plantwide unit presently repre-
sented by the Intervenor, employees in the tooling subdivision in the
following job classifications : master layout man, loftsmen, planners,
tool designers, tool liaison men, tool project men, duplicating machine
operators, production control clerks, planning clerks, planning release
IInternational Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America, CIO, and its Local No. 1093 were permitted to intervene at the hear-
ing in this proceeding on the basis of their certification and contract with the Employer
for the-production and maintenance employees at the Employer's Tulsa division.
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clerks, and production control dispatchers. The record reveals that
employees in the first six of these classifications perform the technical
functions necessary for the translation of engineering blueprints and
designs into the graphic and written instructions and specifications
required to direct the actual fabrication of tools and the assembly of
the aircraft and its subassemblies. They include all the technical
employees in the tooling subdivision. Employees in the last five of
the above-listed job classifications-the duplicating machine operators,
clerks, and dispatchers-although they work in close association with
the planners and may be promoted to lower planner classifications-are
engaged entirely in clerical work.
The record in this case does not establish to our satisfaction that the
unit sought includes all the technical employees working in the many
subdivisions of the Employer's Tulsa division plant. For this reason 2
and because the unit requested by the Petitioner also includes non-
technical employees, we find the requested unit inappropriate for the
purposes of collective bargaining and shall dismiss the petition.
[The Board dismissed the petition.]
2 See Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., 92 NLRB 702 , at 703; E. I. Dupont do Nemours
,and Company, Inc., 107 NLRB 734, at 740.
American Loose Leaf Corporation and Bookbinders & Machine
Operators Union No. 25, International Brotherhood of Book-
binders, AFL. Case No. 2-CA-4?61. August 1, -1955
DECISION AND ORDER
On May 25, 1955, Trial Examiner Arthur Leff issued his Interme-
diate Report in the above-entitled proceeding, finding that the Re-
spondent had engaged in and was engaging in certain unfair labor
practices and recommending that it cease and desist therefrom and take
certain affirmative action, as set forth in the copy of the Intermediate
Report attached hereto. Thereafter, the Respondent filed exceptions
to the Intermediate Report.
The Board has reviewed the rulings of the Trial Examiner made at
the hearing and finds that no prejudicial error was committed. The
rulings are hereby affirmed. The Board has considered the Interme-
diate Report, the exceptions, and the entire record in the case, and
hereby adopts the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the
Trial Examiner.
ORDER
Upon the entire record in this case and pursuant to Section 10 (c)
of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the National Labor
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