Great Lakes Engineering Works

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 9, 1938

6 N.L.R.B. 539 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING WORKS and WELDERS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Case No. R--548
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 9, 1938
On March 4, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in
the above-entitled case.' The Direction of Election directed that
an election by secret ballot be conducted among the welders, burners;
and their apprentices and helpers employed by the Great Lakes
Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michigan, hereinafter called the
company.
Pursuant to the Decision and Direction of Election, an election by
secret ballot has been conducted under the direction and super-
vision of Frank H. Bowen, the Regional Director for the Seventh
Region (Detroit, Michigan) among all of the welders, burners, and
their apprentices and helpers employed by the Company. On March
19, 1938, the said Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III,
Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 1, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties
an Intermediate Report on the election. - No objections or excep-
tions have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible--------------------------------------- 41
Total number of votes cast---------------------------------- 24
Total number of votes for Local 31, Welders International Asso-
ciation --------------------------------------------------- 2
Total number of votes for Down River Shipbuilders Associa-
tion------------------------------------------------------ 22
Total number of votes for neither---------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots-------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots--------------------------------- 0
15 N. L R B 788.
539
540 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in 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 1, as amended,
IT is HEIIF.sr CERTIFIED that Down River Shipbuilders Association
has been selected by a majority of the welders, burners, and their
apprentices and helpers employed by the Great Lakes Engineering
Works, River Rouge, Michigan, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Down River Ship-
builders Association is the exclusive representative of all such em-
ployee for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of
pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.