Indianapolis Drop Forging Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 24, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 1235 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter Of INDIANAPOLIS DROP FORGING COMPANY and STEEL
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, LOCAL 2156, C. I. O.
Case No. B-3686
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
'CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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On May 12, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued its
Decision and Direction of Election 1 in the above-entitled proceedings.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on June 8, 1942, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Eleventh Region (Indianapolis,
Indiana) among employees in the die shop of Indianapolis Drop
Forging Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, herein called the Company.
On June 9, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article
III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regu-
lations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties
an Election Report. 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 among the employees in the Company's die shop,
the Regional Director reported as follows :
Number of employees eligible------------------------------- 25
Number of ballots cast----------------------------------- 21
Number of ballots challenged----------------------------- 0
Number of blank ballots ----------------------------------- 0
Number of void ballots------------------------------------ 0
Number of ballots counted -------------------------------- 21
Votes cast for Indianapolis Die Sinkers ' Lodge No. 230,
affiliated with the International Die Sinkers' Conference_-- 21
Votes cast for Steel Workers Organizing Committee
(C I. O.)---------------------------------------------- 0
Votes cast for neither------------------------------------ '0
In its Decision and Direction of Election, to which reference is
made above, the Board stated that upon the results of the election
should depend, in part,-the appropriate unit; that in the event that
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the Die Sinkers should receive a majority of the votes cast in the
election, the employees in the Company's die shop [with certain
stated exceptions] would constitute a separate appropriate unit for
which the Die Sinkers would be certified as exclusive bargaining
representative.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
SUPPLEMENTAL FINDING OF FACT
We find that all employees in the Company's die shop, excluding
clerical employees, checkers, timekeepers, and such shop foremen
and supervisors as are exclusively employed in the direction of work-
ing forces and who have the power to hire and discharge, constitute
a unit appropriate for the,purposes of collective bargaining within
the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
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 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 Indianapolis Die Sinkers' Lodge No.
230, affiliated with the International Die Sinkers' Conference, has
been designated and selected by a majority of all employees in the
die shop of Indianapolis Drop Forging Company, Indianapolis,,
Indiana, excluding clerical employees, checkers, timekeepers, and such
shop foremen and supervisors as are exclusively employed in the
direction of working forces and' who have the power to hire and
discharge, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that, pursuant-to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Indianapolis
Die Sinkers'- Lodge -No. -230, affiliated with the International Die
Sinkers' Conference, is the- exclusive -representative of all such em-
,ployees for the purposes ofof collective -bargaining with respect to
rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of
employment.