Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 24, 1940

27 N.L.R.B. 439 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of MT. VERNON CAR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A
CORPORATION and AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF IRON, STEEL, AND
TIN WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA, LOCAL LODGE No. 1756 (CIO) ;
BROTHERHOOD RAILWAY CARMEN OF AMERICA, LODGE No. 423
(AFL) ; AND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS, LOCAL
1417 (AFL)
Case No.. RE 4 ,
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
. September 24, 1940
On August 8, 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 September 6, 1940,
under the direction and supervision of the Acting Regional Director
for the Fourteenth Region (St. Louis, Missouri). On September
7,1940, the Acting Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III,
Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties
his 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 Acting Regional Director
reported as follows : - -
(The number of employees who were eligible to vote was 1318)
Total number of ballots cast----------------------------- 1,155
Number of ballots cast for Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Local Lodge
No. 1756 (C. I. 0.) ------------------------------------- 210
Number of ballots cast for Brotherhood Railway Carmen of
America, Lodge No. 423 (A. F. of L ) ------------------ 896
Number of ballots cast for neither of the labor organiza-
tions named-------------------------------------------- 24
Number of ballots challenged------------------------------ 24
Number of void ballots-------------------------- -------- 1
Number of blank ballots---------------------------------- 0
126 N L R B. 413.
27 N. L. R. B., No. 95.
439
440 ' DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD,
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Laboi
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 Brotherhood Railway Carmen of
America, Lodge No. 423, affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor, has been designated and selected by a majority of the pro-
duction and maintenance employees of Mt. Vernon Car Manufactur-
ing Company, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, excluding salaried employees,
foremen, assistant foremen, gang leaders, inspectors, checkers, and
timekeepers, as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act, Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America, Lodge No.
423, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, 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.