Plankinton Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 13, 1938

6 N.L.R.B. 561 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter Of PLANKINTON PACKING COMPANY and PACKING HOUSE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ON BEHALF OF LOCAL 681 OF THE
UNITED PACKING HOUSE WORKERS OF AMERICA
Case No. R-585
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 13, 1938
On March 5, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in
the above-entitled case.' The Direction of Election directed that
an election by secret ballot be conducted within fifteen (15) days
from the date of the Direction among the production and main-
tenance employees employed by Plankinton Packing Company, Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin, at its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plant as of the
pay-roll date of December 25, 1937, including wholesale market
operators and company inspectors, but excluding clerical workers,
supervisory employees, truck drivers, engine and boiler room em-
ployees, watchmen, fire-prevention employees, and temporary em-
ployees, and, excluding also those employees who have since quit or
been discharged for cause, to determine whether they desire to be
represented, for the purposes of collective bargaining, by United
Packing House Workers, Local 681, affiliated with the Committee
for Industrial Organization, or by Amalgamated- Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 248, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, or by neither.
Pursuant to this Decision and Direction of Election, an election
by secret ballot was conducted under the direction and supervision
of Nathaniel S. Clark, the Regional Director for the Twelfth Region,
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin), on March 11, 1938. Thereafter the said
Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1,
as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties his Intermediate
Report on the election. No objections or exceptions to the Inter-
mediate Report have been filed by any of the parties.
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As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows:
Total number of eligible employees------------------------- 854
Total number of ballots counted---------------------------- 796
Total number of votes for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, Local No. 248, A. F
of L----------------------------------------------------- 334
Total number of votes for United Packing House Workers of
America, Local No 681, C. I. 0-------------------------- 435
Total number of votes for neither organization--------------- 27
Total number of void ballots------------------------------- 3
Total number of blank ballots------------------------------ 3
Total number of challenged ballots------------------------- 5
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 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United. Packing House Workers-of
America, Local No. 681, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial
Organization, has been selected by a majority of the production and
maintenance employees employed by Plankinton Packing Company,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plant, including
wholesale market operators and company inspectors, but excluding
clerical workers, supervisory employees, truck drivers, engine and
boiler room employees, watchmen, fire-prevention employees, and
temporary employees, as their representative for the purposes of
collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the
National Labor Relations Act, United Packing House Workers,
Local No. 681, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organi-
zation, 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.