Ingersoll-Rand Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jan 30, 1946

65 N.L.R.B. 625 (N.L.R.B. 1946)

In the Matter Of INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY and UNITED ELECTRICAL,
RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, C. I. O.
Case No. 3-R-1105.-Decided January 30, 1946
Mr. James McFadden, by Mr. James L. Burke, of Elmira, N. Y.,
and Mr. C. L. Parsons, of Painted Post, N. Y., for the Company.
Mr. Charles Rivers, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Mr. Ben Kriesberg, of
Corning, N. Y., for the Union.
Mr. Warren H. Leland, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Upon a petition duly filed by United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America, C. I. 0., herein called the Union, alleging that a
question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation
of employees of Ingersoll-Rand Company, main plant, Painted Post,
New York, herein called the Company, the National Labor Relations
Board provided for an appropriate hearing upon due notice before
Francis Helgesen, Trial Examiner. The hearing was held at Corning,
New York, on November 20, 1945. The Company and the Union ap-
peared and participated. All parties were afforded full opportunity
to be heard, to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce
evidence bearing on the issues. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at
the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
All parties were afforded opportunity to file briefs with the Board.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY
Ingersoll-Rand Company is a New Jersey corporation operating
plants in the State of New Jersey, in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, and at Painted Post, New York, which is the sole plant involved
in this proceeding. The Company, at its Painted Post plant, is en-
gaged in the manufacture and sale of air and gas compressors . During
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the year 1944, the Company purchased raw materials for use at the
Painted Post plant, valued in excess of $5,000,000, of which more than
75 percent was purchased from points outside the State of New York.
During the year 1944, the Company sold manufactured products valued
in excess of $5,000,000, of which more than 75 percent was sold and
shipped to points located outside the State of New York.
The Company admits that it is engaged in commerce within the
meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. '
II. THE ORGANIZATION INVOLVED
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America is a labor
organization, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
admitting to membership employees of the Company.
III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
The Company has refused to grant recognition to the Union as the
exclusive bargaining representative of certain of its employees until
the Union has been certified by the Board in an appropriate unit.
A statement of a Board agent, introduced into evidence at the hear-
ing, indicates that the Union represents a substantial number of em-
ployees in the unit hereinafter found appropriate.'
We find that a question affecting commerce has arisen concerning
the representation of employees of the Company, within the meaning
of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT
Substantially in accordance with the agreement of the parties at
the hearing, we find that all production and maintenance employees of
the Company at its Painted Post main plant, including inspectors,
janitors, truck drivers, timekeepers, and expeditors, but excluding
office and clerical employees, time-study men, production and main-
tenance employees employed in the foundry, foremen, working leaders,
and all other supervisory employees having authority to hire, promote,
discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of
employees, or effectively recommend such action, constitute a unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning
of Section 9 (b) of the Act.
V. THE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
We shall direct that the question concerning representation which
has arisen be resolved by an election by secret ballot among employees
' The Field Examiner reported that the Union submitted 600 authorization cards, bearing
the names of employ ees listed on the Company's pay roll of October 7, 1945.
There are approximately 854 employees in the appropriate unit.
INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY 627
in the appropriate unit who were employed during the pay-roll period
immediately preceding the date of the Direction of Election herein,
subject to the limitations and additions set forth in the Direction.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
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, and pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Re-
lations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 3, as amended, it is
hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Ingersoll-Rand
Company, main plant, Painted Post, New York, an election by secret
ballot shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than thirty
(30) days from the date of this Direction, under the direction and su-
pervision of the Regional Director for the Third Region, acting in this
matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and subject to
Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of said Rules and Regulations, among
employees in the unit found appropriate in Section IV, above, who
were employed during the pay-roll period immediately preceding
the date of this Direction, including employees who did not work dur-
ing said pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation or tem-
porarily laid off, and including employees in the armed forces of the
United States who present themselves in person at the polls, but ex-
cluding those employees who have since quit or been discharged for
cause and have not been rehired or reinstated prior to the date of the
election, to determine whether or not they desire to be represented by
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0.,
for the purposes of collective bargaining.
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