Godchaux Sugars, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 14, 1940

27 N.L.R.B. 225 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of GODCHAUX SUGARS, INC. and SUGAR WORKERS' LOCAL
UNION No. 21934, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR
Case No. R-1920
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 14, 1940 _
On August 2, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled proceedings., Pursuant to the Direction of Election an
election by secret ballot was conducted on August 13, 1940, under the
direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Fifteenth
Region (New Orleans, Louisiana). On August 16, 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 his Election Report.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total on eligibility list------------------------------------ 899
Total ballots cast---------------------------------------- 851
Total ballots challenged----------------------------------- 31
a. Challenged ballots determined eligible--------------- 2
b Challenged ballots determined not eligible------------ 2
Total blank ballots--------------------------------------- 2
Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 5
Total valid votes cast------------------------------------- 815
Total votes cast for Sugar Workers' Local Union No. 21934,
affiliated with American Federation of Labor------------- 427
Total votes cast for Godchaux Sugars Employees Labor Coun-
cil, Unaffiliated----------------------------------------- 344
Total votes cast for neither organization------------------- 42
On August 22, 1940, Godchaux Sugar Employees Labor Council,
herein called the Council, filed with the Regional Director a "Protest
of Election" containing objections to the conduct of the ballot and the
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Election Report. On August 28, 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 a report on the objections contained in the protest
filed by the Council in which he recommended that the protest be
dismissed as being without merit. .
The Board has fully considered the objections filed by the Council
and finds that they do not raise substantial or material issues with
respect to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report. The objec-
tions are hereby overruled.
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 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 Sugar Workers' Local Union No. 21934,
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been designated
and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance em-
ployees of Godchaux Sugars, Inc., at its Reserve, Louisiana, plant,
including sugar boilers, ground and yard employees, narrow-gauge
railroad employees, Servall department employees, electric-truck oper-
ators, longshoremen, samplers, entrainment men, car knockers, tool-
room employees, Willie Dent, J. S. Blunt, Clifford F. Landy, and
Ernest Duhe, but excluding supervisory, agricultural and clerical em-
ployees, checkers and weighers, lodging-house attendants, community-
club employees, chemists and bench chemists, truck drivers and garage-
men; welfare-department employees, watchmen, and employees listed
in Appendices A and B of the Board's Decision and Direction of Elec-
tion, 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, Sugar Workers' Local Union No. 21934, affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor, 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 condi-
tions of employment.