General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 20, 1940

28 N.L.R.B. 36 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA-
TION and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS,
AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L.
In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION or GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA-
TION and UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED
WITH THE A. F. OF L.
In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION OF,GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA-
TION and METAL POLISHERS, BUFFERS, PLATERS & HELPERS INTL.
UNION, LOCAL No. 24, AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L.
Cases Nos. R-1848, R-18419, and R-1850
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 20, 190
On July 19, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Elections in the above-
entitled proceeding., On October 3, 1940, the Board issued a Sup-
plemental Decision, Second Direction of Election and Certification
of Representatives.2 Pursuant to the Supplemental Decision, Second
Direction of Election and Certification of Representatives, an election
by secret ballot was conducted on October 29, 1940, under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eleventh Region
(Indianapolis, Indiana). On October 30, 1940, the Regional Director,
acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly
served upon the parties an Election Report on the ballot.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number of employee:; alleged eligible to vote------------- S02
Total number voted----------------------------------------- 742
Total number of valid votes cast----------------------------- 719
Total number of votes for the AFL--------------------------- 362
Total number of votes for the CIO-UAW---------------------- 357
12.5 N L R B 698
227NLR B 628
28 N L. 11 B, No. 12.
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DELCO RADIO 37
Total blank ballots ----------------------------------------- 19
Total number of void ballots -------------------- ------------- 3
Total number of challenged ballots ___________________________ 1
On November 5, 1940, International Union, United Automobile
Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organ-
izations, herein called CIO-UAW, filed with the Regional Director
Objections to Conduct of Ballot and Election Report. On November
8, 1940, the Regional Director , acting pursuant to Article III, Sec-
tion 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 2, as amended, issued 'a Report on Objections to the Conduct
of Secret Ballot and Election Report.
We have considered the objections of the CIO-UAW and the
Regional Director 's Report thereon and we are of the opinion that
the objections raise no substantial and material issues with respect
to the conduct of the election. The objections are hereby overruled.
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
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 American Federation of Labor has been
designated and selected by a majority of all production , maintenance, °
and tool -room employees in Plant 1 and Plant 2 of Delco Radio Divi-
sion of General Motors Corporation , Kokomo, Indiana, excluding
metal polishers , buffers , platers, and their helpers , direct representa-
tives of the management , such as officers and directors of the Company,
sales managers and assistant sales managers, factory managers and
,assistant factory managers, process engineers , tool designers, time
keepers, time-study Inen, directors ancl,employees of sales, accounting,
Personnel and Industrial Relations Departments , directors of pur-
-chases and assistant directors of purchases , superintendents and assist-
ant superintendents , general foremen , foremen and assistant foremen,
all other persons working in a supervisory capacity , including those
having the right to hire and discharge and those whose duties include
recommendations as to hiring and discharging ( but not leaders), and
those employees whose work is of a confidential nature, office employees,
plant production employees, all clerical employees, chief engineers,
shift operating engineers in the power plant, designing engineers,
laboratory technicians, technical school students, engineering model
makers , draftsmen , and detailers , as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of
the Act, American Federation of Labor 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.