Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 12, 1938

8 N.L.R.B. 241 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of MINNEAPOLIS -MOLINE POWER IMPLEMENT Co. and
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS , LOCAL No. 1037.
Case No. R-701
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 12,1938
On June 10, 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 elec-
tion by secret ballot be conducted among all production employees
of the Company who were employed by the Company at its Hopkins
plant during the pay-roll period ending March 11, 1938, and who
have had thirty (30) days of service with the Company prior to that
date, including employees who were laid off within sixty (60) days
prior to March'11, 1938, and who have had thirty (30) days' service
with the Company prior to their lay-off, exclusive of clerical and
supervisory employees, timekeepers, assistant foremen and full-time
outside truck drivers engaged in delivering products outside of the
plant, and those employees who have since quit or have been dis-
charged for cause, to determine whether they desire to be represented
by International Association of Machinists, Local 1037, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, or by United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of America, Local No. 1138, affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organization, for the purposes of collective
bargaining, or by neither.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted under the direction and supervision of the Regional
Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota). On
June 22, 1938, the 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 ballot. No exceptions to the Inter-
mediate Report have been filed by any of the parties.
17 N L. R B. 840.
8 N. L. It. B., No. 28.
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242 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
As to the results of the secret balloting, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total number eligible to vote________________________________ 658
Total number of ballots cast ________________________________ 606
Total number of votes for International Association of Ma-
chinists , Local No. 1037 (A F. of L.) ----------------------- 189
Total number of votes for United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 1138 (C. I. 0.) -------------- 397
Total number of votes for neither organization ________________ 19
Total number of blank ballots_______________________________ 0
Total number of void ballots________________________________ 1
Total number of challenged votes______ ______________________ 0
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act, and pursuant
to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of National Labor Relations Board
Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 1138, has been designated and selected
by a majority of the production employees of the Minneapolis-
Moline Power Implement Company at its Hopkins, Minnesota, plant,
exclusive of clerical and supervisory employees, timekeepers, assist-
ant foremen , and full-time outside truck drivers engaged in deliver-
ing products outside of the plant, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of
the Act, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America,
Local No. 1138, 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.