General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 15, 1940

25 N.L.R.B. 385 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION DELCO PRODUCTS
DIVISION and LOCAL 801, UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMIER ICA, 9 EAST FIFTH STREET, DAYTON, OHIO
Case No. I?-1796
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 15, 1940
On May 20, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Elections,' and on
June 13, 1940, an Amendment to Direction of Elections,2 in the above-
entitled proceeding. Pursuant to the Direction of Elections as
amended, an election by 'secret ballot was conducted on June 14,
1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Ninth Region (Cincinnati, Ohio). On June 15, 1940, the
Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of Na-
tional Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as
amended, issued and dilly served upon the parties his Election Re-
port. No objections to the conduct of the balloting 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:
GROUP 1 -THE PATTERN MAKERS
Number of alleged eligible voters__________________________ 21
Number of ballots placed in ballot bos______________________ 21
Number of unchallenged ballots for Pattern Makers League
of N A., affiliated with A F of L________________________ 18
Number of unchallenged ballots against Pattern Makers
League of North America, affiliated with A. F. of L________ 2
Number of challenged ballots______________________________ 1
Number of blank ballots__________________________________ 0
Number of spoiled ballots__________________________________ 0
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, 23 N L R B 1014
3 24 N L R B 724 Pui,uant to the union's request, the amendment provided
for the deletion of the name of Local 801, United Electrical, Radio & Machine workers
of Amenca. affiliated Nsith the C I. 0, fioni the ballot in the pattern makeis election.
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GROUP 2 -THE PLANT UNIT
Number of alleged eligible voters-------------------------- 4,253
Number of ballots plaLced in ballot box---------------------- 3, 890
Number of unchallenged ballots for Local 801, United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, affil with
C. I. 0------------------------------------------------- 2,158
Number of unchallenged ballots against Local 801, United
Electrical , Radio & Machine Workers of A., affil. with
C. I 0-------------------------------------------------"1,679
Number of challenged ballots------------------------------ 20
Number of blank ballots------------- ---------------------- 13
Number of spoiled ballots--------------------------------- 20
In the Decision and Direction of Elections referred to above, we
stated that upon the results in each of the elections would depend
our determination of whether the employees in the pattern makers
group constituted a separate unit or a part of the industrial unit.
In view of the results of the elections among the employees in the
pattern makers group and the plant group, it is apparent that these
groups constitute separate appropriate bargaining units.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following :
SUPPLEMENTAL FINDENGS OF FACT
We find that each of the following two groups of employees, em-
ployed by General Motors Corporation, Delco Products Division,
Dayton, Ohio, constitutes a unit appropriate for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining and that such unit will insure to em-
ployees of the Company the full benefit of their right to self-organi-
zation and to collects e bargaining and otherwise effectuate the
policies of the Act:
(a) All wood pattern makers and metal pattern makers working'
on bench or machine, pattern checkers, and the apprentices of these
classifications, exclusive of supervisory or salaried employees and
those whose work is of a confidential nature;
(b) All hourly paid production and maintenance employees, proc-
ess machine ' tool builders, salvage and plant inspection employees,
tool and die inakers, machine repair employees, and inspectors, ex-
clusive of the factory manager, assistant factory manager, superin-'
tenclents, general foremen, assistant foremen, job foremen, group
leaders. chief chsliatcher, assistant chief dispatcher and dispatchers,
timekeepers, plant protection employees, clerical employees, metal
model makers, chief inspector and assistant chief inspector, salaried
employees, garage attendants, cooperative school students, 'technical
school students, employees of the Personnel and Industrial Relations
Department, and all wood pattern makers and metal pattern makers
working on bench or machine, pattern checkers, and the apprentices
of these classifications.
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Upon the basis of the foregoing facts and the entire record in the
case, the Board makes the following :
SUPPLEMENTAL CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. All wood pattern makers and metal pattern makers working on
bench or machine, pattern checkers, and the apprentices of these
classifications of General Motors Corporation, Delco Products Divi-
sion, Dayton, Ohio, exclusive of supervisory or salaried employees and
those whose work is of a confidential nature, constitute a unit appro-
priate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within the mean-
ing of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All hourly paid production and maintenance employees, process
machine tool builders, salvage and plant inspection employees, tool
and die makers, machine repair employees, and inspectors of General
Motors Corporation, Delco Products Division, Dayton, Ohio, exclu-
sive of the factory manager, assistant factory manager, superintend-
ents, general foremen, assistant foremen, job foremen, group leaders,
chief dispatcher, assistant chief dispatcher and dispatchers, time-
keepers, plant protection employees, clerical employees, metal model
makers, chief inspector and assistant chief inspector, salaried em-
ployees, garage attendants, cooperative school students, technical
school students, employees of the Personnel and Industrial Relations
Department, and all wood pattern makers and metal pattern makers
working on bench or machine, pattern checkers, and the apprentices
of these classifications, constitute a unit, appropriate for the purposes
of collective bargaining, within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the
National Labor Relations Act.
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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, 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 Pattern Makers League of North
America, affiliated with the A. F. of L., has been designated and se-
lected by a majority of all wood pattern makers and metal pattern
makers working on bench or machine, pattern checkers, and the ap-
prentices of these classifications of General Motors Corporation,
Delco Products Division, Dayton, Ohio, exclusive of supervisory or
salaried employees and those whose work is of a confidential nature,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
Pattern Makers League of North America, affiliated with the A. F. of
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L., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours
of employment, and other conditions of employment.
IT IS HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFIED that Local 801, United Electrical,
Radio & Machine Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0.,
has been designated and selected by a majority of all hourly paid pro-
duction and maintenance employees, process machine tool builders,
salvage and plant inspection employees, tool and die makers, machine
repair employees, and inspectors of General Motors Corporation,
Delco Products Division, Dayton, ' Ohio, exclusive of 'the factory
manager, assistant factory manager, superintendents, general fore-
men, assistant foremen, job foremen, group leaders, chief dispatcher,
assistant chief dispatcher and dispatchers, timekeepers, plant protec-
tion employees, clerical employees, metal model makers, chief inspec-
tor and assistant chief inspector, salaried employees, garage attend-
ants, cooperative school students, technical school students, employees
of the Personnel and Industrial Relations Department, and all wood
pattern makers and metal pattern makers working on bench or ma-
chine, pattern checkers, aiid the apprentices of these classifications, as
their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
Local 801, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America,
affiliated with the C. I. 0., 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.
MR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of the
above Supplemental Decision and Certification of Representatives.