National Fireworks, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 17, 1941

35 N.L.R.B. 472 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of NATIONAL FIREWORKS , INC. and FEDERAL LABOR UNION
No. 22694, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. R-2718
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 17, 1941
On August 5, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in- the
above-entitled proceeding.' On August 22, 1941, the Board issued
an Amendment to Direction of Election.2 Pursuant to the Direction
of Election, as amended, an election by secret ballot was conducted
on August 28,1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional
Director for the First Region (Boston, Massachusetts). On August
29, 1941, 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, 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 :
Total number eligible to vote________________________________ 938
Total number of votes cast ----------------------------------- 848
Total number of valid votes_________________________________ 813
Total number of ballots marked for "Yes"____________________ 784
Total number of ballots marked for "No"--------- - ------- -- 29
Total number of blank ballots ---------------------- ----- -_ 1
Total number of void ballots---------------- -_------------ 1
Total number of challenged ballots --------------------- ----- 33
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 Federal Labor Union No. 22694, affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor, has been designated and
selected by a majority of all production and maintenance employees
133 N . L. R B. 1115.
2 34 N . L. R B. 754
35 N. L . R. B, No. 107.
472
NATIONAL FIREWORKS, INC. 473
at the West Hanover plants of National Fireworks, Inc., West Han-
over, Massachusetts, including firemen or engineers, truck drivers and
helpers, and inspectors, but excluding executives, salesmen, office clerks,
plant police, engineers, draftsmen, superintendents and their assistants,
foremen, clerks in ordnance and fireworks department; timekeepers,
clerks in maintenance department, gang bosses in production depart-
ment, gang bosses in maintenance and construction department, and
gang bosses or assistant foremen in fireworks plant, as their represent-
ative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to
Section 9 (a) of the Act, Federal Labor Union No. 22694, 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 conditions
of employment.