General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 14, 1941

34 N.L.R.B. 292 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of FISHER BODY DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
and UNITE!) AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, C. I. O.
Case No. R-2680
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
A2tgust 14, 1941
On July 17, 1941 , the National Labor Relations Board issued its
Decision and Direction of Election 1 and on July 22, 1941 , its Amend-
ment to Direction of Election ,2 in the above -entitled proceeding.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election , as amended , an election by
secret ballot was conducted on July 24, 1941 , under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the Ninth Region (Cin-
cinnati, Ohio ). On July 25, 1941 , the Regional Director acting pur-
suant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board
Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued an Election
Report, copies of which were duly served upon the parties. No
objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report have
been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results , the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Number of alleged eligible voters---------------------------------------- 840
Number of ballots placed in ballot boa ----------------------------------- 759
Number of unchallenged ballots for United Automobile Workers of America,
C. I. 0.-------------------------------------------------------------- 626
Number of unchallenged ballots against United Automobile Workers of
America, C . I. 0 ----------------------------------------------------- 118
Number of challenged ballots-------------------------------------- ---- 0
Number of blank ballots ------------------------------------------------- 10
Number of spoiled ballots----------------------------------------------- 5
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions 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 United Automobile Workers of America,
C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of all pro-
133 N L. R B 499
2 33 N L R . B. 504.
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FISHER BODY DIVISION, 293
duction and maintenance employees and mechanical employees in the
engineering-department shops of Fisher Body Division, General
Motors Corporation, Norwood, Ohio, excluding employees of sales, ac-
counting, personnel, and industrial-relations departments, superin-
tendents and `assistant superintendents, general foremen, foremen
and assistant foremen, and all other persons working in a supervisory
capacity, including those who have the right to hire or discharge,
and those whose duties include recommendation as to hiring or dis-
charge (but not leaders), and those employees whose work is of a
confidential nature; time-study men; plant-protection employees
(but not to include maintenance patrolmen or fire patrolmen) ; all
clerical employees; chief engineers and shift operating engineers in
the power plants; designing (drawing board), production, estimat-
ing, and planning engineers ; draftsmen and detailers; physicists ;
chemists; , metallurgists; artists, designer-artists, and clay-plaster
modelers; timekeepers; technical school students; indentured ap-
prentices; technical or professional employees who are receiving train-
ing; and kitchen and cafeteria help, as their representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions
of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, United Automo-
bile Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for
the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay,
wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.
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