International Harvester Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 16, 1941

35 N.L.R.B. 445 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY (ROCK FALLS
WORKS) and FEDERAL LABOR UNION No. 22647, AFFILIATED WITH
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. R-2506
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 16, 1941
On May 22, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in
the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elec-
tion; an election by secret ballot was conducted on June 18, 1941,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On August 9, 1941, the
Board issued a Supplemental Decision and Direction.2 On August
18, 1941, Federal Labor Union No. 22647 filed a motion to reconsider.
The motion is hereby denied. Pursuant to the Supplemental De-
cision and Direction, 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 a Supplemental Election Report. No objections to the.
conduct of the ballot or the Supplemental Election Report have been
filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, The Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number of ballots cast________________________________ 208
Total number on eligibility list ------------------------------ 203
Total number of void ballots_______________________________ 0
Total number of blank ballots ------------------------------- 0
Total number of valid ballots cast___________________________ 204
Total number of ballots cast for Local 22647__________________ 100
Total number of ballots cast for the F. E., W. 0. C---------- 103
Total number of ballots cast for neither______________________ 1
132 N. L. R B. 33.
2 34 N. L. R B. 106.
35 N. L. R B, No. 99.
445
446 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
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 Local 111, Farm Equipment Workers
Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of
all production and maintenance employees at the Rock Falls Works
of International Harvester Company, Rock Falls, Illinois, excluding
salaried employees, supervisory employees on hourly rates above
the rank of working group leaders, factory clerical employees, office
clerical employees, indentured apprentices, progressive executive stu-
dents, fire and watch employees (except production and maintenance
employees who act as volunteer firemen), and temporary employees,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the'Act, Local 111, Farm Equip-
ment Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive representative of all
such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect
to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions
of employment.