Houdaille-Hershey Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 24, 1942

44 N.L.R.B. 475 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter Of HOUDAILLE-HERSHEY CORPORATION and UAW-CIO,
-LOCAL 850
Case, No. R-4130
CERTIFICATION OF-REPRESENTATIVES'
September 04, 1942
On August 27, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued
a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding 1
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was
conducted on September 10, 1942, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional,Director for the Third Region, (Buffalo, New York).
On September 12, 1942, 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. No objections to the conduct
of the ballot or the Election Report were filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows:
Total. on eligibility list-- --------------------------------- 2, 702
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 2,122
Total ballots challenged----------------------------------- 60
Total blank ballots--------------------------------------- 4
Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 1
Total valid votes counted--------------------------------- 2,057
Votes cast for UAW-CIO, Local 850------------------------- 1, 672
Notes cast for International Association of Machinists-
A. F. L., Delvan Industrial Lodge 1561-------------------- 291
Votes cast for neither------------------------------------ 94
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 UAW-CIO, Local 850 has been desig-
nated and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance
employees of the Houdaille-Hershey Corporation, Buffalo, New York,
including employees of the tool department, tool store clerks who do
not exercise supervisory functions, shipping and receiving clerks, and
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production clerks, but excluding office and supervisory employees, em-
ployees in .the time study, drafting- and engineering ,departments,
watchmen, departmental clerks, personnel clerks, tool control clerks,
and tool store clerks, who exercise supervisory functions as their rep-
resentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pur-
suant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, UAW-CIO, Local 850 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.