General Electric Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 10, 1946

70 N.L.R.B. 1309 (N.L.R.B. 1946)

In the Matter of GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, BRIDGEVILLE GLASS
WORKS, EMPLOYER and AMERICAN FLINT GLASS WORKERS' UNION,
AFFILIATED WITH A. F. L., PETITIONER
Case No. 6 R-13.45.-Decided September 10, 1946
Mr. B. G. Greenman, of Bridgeville, Pa., for the Employer.
Mr. Albert Vottero, of Toledo, Ohio, for the Petitioner.
Mr. Walter Mug f ord, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Intervenor.
Mrs. Catherine 1Y. Goldman, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION .
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition, duly filed, hearing in this case was held at Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, on August 5, 1946, before Henry Shore, Trial
Examiner. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at the hearing are free
from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. At the hearing,
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0.,
herein called the Intervenor, -moved to intervene, and the motion was
granted.
Upon the entire record in the case, the National Labor Relations
Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
I. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYER
General Electric Company, a New York corporation engaged in
the manufacture and distribution of a wide variety,of electrical pro-
ducts, operates plants in several States, including a plant at Bridge-
ville, Pennsylvania. -At its Bridgeville plant, the only'plant involved
in this proceeding, the Employer is engaged in the manufacture of
glass bulbs and tubing for radios, lamps, and other electrical equip-
ment. During the 12-month period preceding July 1946, the Employer
used at its Bridgeville plant raw materials with a value in excess of
$1,000,000, of which approximately 95 percent originated outside the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During the same period the Em-
plover manufactured at the Bridgeville plant more than 16,000,000
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pounds of finished products, all of which was shipped outside the
Commonwealth.
The Employer admits and we find that it is engaged in commerce-
within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.
II. THE ORGATNIZATIONS INVOLVED
• The Petitioner is a labor organization affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, claiming to represent employees of the
Employer.
The Intervenor is a labor organization affiliated with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, claiming to represent employees of the
Employer.
III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
The Employer refuses to recognize either the Petitioner or the In-
tervenor as the exclusive bargaining representative of employees of
the Employer until certified by the Board in an appropriate unit.
We find that a question affecting commerce has arisen concerning
the representation of employee's of the Employer, within the meaning
of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT
We find, substantially in accordance with a stipulation of the, parties,'
that all production and maintenance employees of the Employer at
its Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, plant, including cafeteria employees,
boiler firemen-watchmen, quality checkers, and lead women, but ex-
eluding office employees, foremen, master mechanic, chief electrician,
and all other supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote,
discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of em-
ployees, or effectively recommend such action, constitute a ,unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the mean-
ing of Section 9 (b) of the Act.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
As part of the investigation to ascertain representatives for, the
purposes of collective bargaining with General Electric Company,
Bridgeville Glass Works, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, an election by
secret ballot shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than
thirty (30) days from the date of this Direction, under the direction
,and supervision of the Regional Director for the Sixth Region, acting
in this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and-
subject to Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of National Labor Rela-
tions Board Rtiles and Regulations-Series 3, as amended, among the
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employees in the unit found appropriate in. Section IV, above, who
were employed during the pay-roll period immediately preceding
the date of this Direction, including employees who did not work
during said pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation or
temporarily laid off, and including employees in the armed forces of
the United States who present themselves in person at the polls, but
excluding those employees who have, since quit or been discharged
for cause and have not been rehired or reinstated prior to the date
of the election, to determine whether they desire to be represented
by American Flint Glass Workers' Union, affiliated with A. F. L.,
or by. United Electricalf Radio &,' Machine Workers of America,
C. I. 0., for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither.
MR. JAMES J. REYNOLDS, JR., took no part in the consideration of the
above Decision and Direction of Election.