Great Lakes Engineering Works

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 22, 1937

4 N.L.R.B. 191 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of GREAT LADES ENGINEERING WORKS and DETROIT
METAL TRADES COUNCIL
- Case No. R-231
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 22, 1937
On June 19, 1937, the Detroit Metal Trades Council, chartered by
the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor,
herein called the Council, filed with the Regional Director for the
Seventh Region (Detroit, Michigan) a petition alleging that a ques-
tion affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of
employees of Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michi-
gan, herein called the Company, and requesting an investigation and
certification of representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On
June 24, 1937, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the
Board, acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III,
Section 3, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 1, as amended, authorized the Regional Director to con-
duct an investigation and to provide for an appropriate hearing.
Pursuant to notices duly served upon the Company, the Council,
and the Down River Shipbuilders' Association, herein called the
Association, a labor organization named in the petition as claiming
to represent employees of the Company, a hearing was held in
Detroit, Michigan, on July 26 and 27, 1937, before Alvin J. Rockwell,
the Trial Examiner duly designated by the Board. On October 15,
1937, the Board issued a Decision, Certification of Representatives and
Direction of Election.' The Direction of Election provided that an
election by secret ballot should be held among the electricians, in-
cluding electric crane operators and apprentices and helpers, but ex-
cluding foremen and assistant foremen, employed by Great Lakes
Engineering Works in its River Rouge, Michigan, plant, at any time
during the period covered by its July 17, 1937, pay roll and including
one employee who was injured and drawing compensation at that
time, but excluding those who had since quit or been discharged for
cause, to determine whether they desired to be represented by Local
1 3 N L. R. B. 825.
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192 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
No. B-58 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, or by the Down
River Shipbuilders' Association, for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, or by neither.
Pursuant to the Direction, balloting was conducted on October 25,
1937. Full opportunity was accorded to all the parties to this in-
vestigation to participate in the conduct of the secret ballot and to
make challenges.
On November 8, 1937, the Acting Regional Director for the Seventh
Region, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued
his Intermediate Report on the ballot which was duly served on the
parties to the proceeding on November 10, 1937. No exceptions to
the Intermediate Report were filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results , the Acting Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total eligible to vote------------------------------------------- 61
Total number of ballots cast------------------------------------ 55
Total number of ballots cast for Local No. B-58, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers---------------------------- 19
Total number of ballots cast for the Down River Shipbuilders'
Association-------------------------------------------------- 36
Total number of ballots cast for neither------------------------ 0
Total number of challenged ballots-- -------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots ---------------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots------------------------------------ 0
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, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the Down River Shipbuilders' Asso-
ciation has been designated and selected by a majority of the elec-
tricians, including electric crane operators and apprentices and help-
ers, but excluding foremen and assistant foremen, employed by
Great Lakes Engineering Works at its River Rouge, Michigan, plant,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
the Down River Shipbuilders' Association is the exclusive representa-
tive of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining
with respect to wages, rates of pay, hours of work, and other
conditions of employment.