Monsanto Chemical Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 18, 1940

28 N.L.R.B. 5 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter Of MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY and CHEMICAL
WORKERS' UNION No. 21536, ST. Louis, MISSOURI, AFFILIATED WITH
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. -
Case No. R-2059
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 18, 1940
On October 10, 1940, 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 Election,
an election by secret ballot was conducted'on October 25, 1940, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Four-
teenth Region (St. Louis, Missouri). On October 28, 1940, the Re-
gional 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 have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows : -
(The number of employees who were eligible to vote was 843.)
Total number of ballots cast_______________________________ 812
Number of ballots challenged_____________________________ None
Number of blank ballots__________________________________ None
Number of void ballots____________________________________ None
Number of valid ballots cast__ _____________________________ 812
Number of ballots voted "Yes", that is , designating Chemical
Workers' Union No. 21536 , St. Louis, Missouri , affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor, as representative
for the purposes of collective bargaining ________________ 53
Number of ballots voted "No"_____________________________ 359
By -virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the 1\Tational
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,
1 27 N L. R B 749.
28 N. L R. B,No.3.
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6 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Chemical Workers' Union No. 21536,
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been desig-
nated and selected by a majority of all employees of Plant A of
Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri, who are paid on
an hourly rate basis in the production, maintenance, power, service,
warehouse, and shipping divisions, including all head operators, lead
men, and pushers, but excluding foremen, assistant foremen, mem-
bers of the plant police force, plant office porters, temporary em-
ployees, permanent laboratory employees, relief night superintend-
ents, watchmen, and clerical employees, as their representative for
the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section
9 (a) of the Act, Chemical Workers' Union No. 21536, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, is the exclusive representative of
all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in re-
spect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other condi-
tions of employment.