North Star Specialty Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 12, 1938

6 N.L.R.B. 555 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of NORTH STAR SPECIALTY Co. and INTERNATIONAL ASSO-
CIATION OF MACHINISTS, LOCAL 382
Case No. R-466
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 10, 1938
On March 3, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board issued a De-
cision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled case.' The Di-
rection of Election provided that an election by secret ballot be con-
ducted within fifteen (15) days from the date of the Direction among
all employees of North Star Specialty Manufacturing Co., Minne-
apolis, Minnesota, herein called the Company, excluding clerical and
supervisory employees and the experimental worker, who were on the
pay roll of the Company on October 12, 1937, excepting those who
had since quit or been discharged for cause, to determine whether they
desired to be represented by International Association of Machinists,
Local 382, or by United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of
America, Local 1139, for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by
neither.
Pursuant to the Direction, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on March 16, 1938. Full opportunity was accorded to all of
the parties to this investigation to participate in the conduct of the
secret ballot and to make challenges. On March 18, 1938, the Regional
Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota), act-
ing pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued his Inter-
mediate Report upon the secret ballot, copies of which were duly
served-upon the parties. No exceptions to the Intermediate Report
have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number of votes cast for International Association of Ma-
chinists , Local 382----------------------------------------- 8
Total number of votes cast for United Electrical , Radio & Ma-
chine Workers , Local 1139--------------------------------- 14
Total number of ballots cast for neither of the above organi-
zations--------------------------------------------------- 1
Total number of blank ballots -------------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots --------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots--------------------------- 0
Total number of ballots cast----- ---------------------------- 23
Total number eligible to vote ----- --------------------------- 23
1 5 N. L R B 763
555
556 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
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 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 1139, has been designated and selected
by a majority of all employees of North Star Specialty Manufactur-
ing Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, excluding clerical and supervisory
employees and the experimental worker, as their representative for
the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section
9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of America, Local 1139, is the exclusive repre-
sentative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other
conditions of employment.