Mt. Shasta Pine Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 2, 1941

35 N.L.R.B. 114 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of MT. SHASTA PINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY and
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PINE WORKERS ASSOCIATION
Case No. R-2908.-Decided September 20,1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for Certification
of Representatives upon consent election.
Alice M. Rosseter, for the Board.
Mr. Frank Ball, of Mt. Shasta, Calif., for the Company.
Mr. W. H. Day, of Mt. Shasta, Calif., for the Union.
Mr. Louis Cokin, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On July 12, 1941, Northern California Pine Workers Association,
herein called the Union, filed with the Regional Director for the
Twentieth Region (San Francisco, California) a petition alleging that
a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representa-
tion of employees of Mt. Shasta Pine Manufacturing Company, herein
called the Company, engaged in the manufacture and distribution of
lumber and lumber products at Mt. Shasta, California, and requesting
an investigation and certification of representatives pursuant to Sec-
tion 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein
collpd the Act. On August 2, 1941, the Company, the Union, and the
Regional Director entered into a "STIPULATION- FOR CERTIFI-
CATION UPON CONSENT ELECTION." On August 6, 1941, the
National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, acting pur-
suant to Section 9 (c) of the Act, and Article III, Section 9, of National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended,
ordered an investigation and authorized the Regional Director to
conduct it and to provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice.
Pursuant to the Stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on August 11, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director, among all production and maintenance employees
of the Company, excluding executives, foremen, clerical workers, and
watchmen, to determine whether or not said employees desire to be
represented by the Union. On August 12, 1941, the Regional Director
issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report on the
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ballot. No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election
Report have been filed by any of the parties.
In his Election Report, the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the balloting and its results:
Total number eligible to vote--------------------------------- 180
Number of votes for Northern California Pine Workers Associa-
tion ------------------------------------------------------ 120
Number of votes against Northern California Pine Workers Asso-
ciation --------------------------------------------------- 40
Total number of votes counted------------------------------- 160
Number of blank ballots------------------------------------- 0
Number of void ballots-------------------------------------- 3
Number of challenged ballots--------------------------------- 0
Upon the basis of the Stipulation, the Election Report, and the entire
record in the case, the Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. A question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of Mt. Shasta Pine Manufacturing Company,
Mt. Shasta, California, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Sec-
tion 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All production and maintenance employees of the Company, ex-
cluding executives, foremen, clerical workers, and watchmen, constitute
a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within
the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor.Relations Act.
3. Northern California Pine Workers Association has been desig-
nated and selected by a majority of the employees in the above unit as
their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and is
the exclusive representative of all employees in said unit, within the
meaning of Section 9 (a) 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
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Northern California Pine Workers
Association has been designated and selected by a majority of all pro-
duction and maintenance employees'of Mt. Shasta Pine Manufactur-
ing Company, Mt. Shasta, California, excluding executives,. foremen,
clerical workers, and watchmen, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a)
of the Act, Northern California Pine Workers Association is the ex-
clusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employ-
ment, and other conditions of employment.
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