RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 10, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 900 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Mattel' of RKO RADIO PICTURES , INC. and SCREEN OFFICE AND
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES GUILD, LOCAL 109 , U. O. P. W . A., C. 1. 0.
Case No. R-3608
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 10;1942
On May 5, 1942, 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 elec-
tion by secret ballot was conducted on May 22, 1942, under the direc-
tion and supervision of the Regional Director for the Second Region
(New York City). On May 25, 1942, 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. No objections to the conduct of
the ballot or to the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the -balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total on eligibility, list ---- -------------------------------- --- 261,
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------ 243
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------ 0
Total blank ballots---------------------------------------- 3
Total void ballots------------------------------------------ . 0
,
Total valid votes counted------------------------------------ 240
Votes cast for Screen Office and Professional Employees Guild,
Local 109, United Office and Professional Workers of America,
C. I 0-------------------------------------------------- 194
Votes cast against aforementioned union--------------------- 46
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 Screen Office and Professional Em-
ployees Guild, Local 109, United Office and Professional Workers of
America, C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of
all office, clerical, secretarial, and accounting employees of RKO Radio
Pictures, Inc., employed in the RKO building, 1270 Sixth Avenue,
140 N L R B 1185
41 N. L. R. B., No. 158.
900
RKO RADIO PICTURES, INC. 901
New York City, including particularly auditors; accountants; book-
keepers; bookkeeping machine operators; comptometer operators;
accounting, contract, file, mail, print and negative, playdate, pub-
licity, purchasing, research, sales, scenario, statistical, talent typing,
and general clerks; page boys; receptionists; reproduction machine
operators, including ditto, mimeograph, multigraph, photostat, and
addressograph machine operators; secretaries, statisticians; stenog-
raphers; statistical typists; tabulating machine operators, including
keypunch, sorter, verifier, and printer machine operators ; telegraph
operators; and typists; but excluding executives; officers; traveling
auditors; lawyers; supervisory employees having' the power to hire
and discharge or the duty to make recommendations concerning they-,
hire and discharge of employees, wage increases, or other adjustments
of working conditions (such supervisory employees being included in
Appendix "A," attached hereto) ; and employees who come within
the bargaining units found appropriate by the Board in Matter of
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. and Screen Publicists Guild, 'Case No.
R-23'49, and Matter of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. and Screen Readers
Guild of New York, Case No. R-2554, regardless of whether or not
the employees in such units are covered by - a collective bargaining
contract or contracts with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant
to Section 9 (a) of the Act,_Screen Office and Professional Employees
Guild, Local 109, United Office and Professional Workers of America,
C. I. 0., 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.
APPENDIX A
The supervisory employees referred to, appearing on the pay roll
for the week ending March 14, 1942, are as follows :
Advertising and Publicity
L. E. Gaudreau
Scenario Department
Leda Bauer
Talent Department
Arthur Willi
Marian Robertson
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Research Department
Harold Hendee
Print and Negative Department
Sid Kramer
Finance Department
Henry Holms
Playdate and Contract Department
E. J. Smith
Sales Contract Department '
Lou H. Miller
William E. Dahler
Emmet Cashman
Accounting Department
Arthur White
Export Department
B. D. Lion
M. Hoffay
H. Ehhreich
V. Lissim
R. K. Hawkinson