The Crawford Steel Foundry Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 19, 1946

70 N.L.R.B. 150 (N.L.R.B. 1946)

In the Matter of THE CRAWFORD STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, EMPLOYER
and CRAWFORD STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY UNION OF Bucmus, OHIO,'
PETITIONER
Case No. 8-R-2166.-Decided August 19, 1946
Mr. J. L. Halberstein, of Marion, Ohio, and Mr. S. McClure, of
Bucyrus, Ohio, for the Employer.
Mr. Edward J. Myers, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and Mr. Frank Wiede-
mann, of Marion, Ohio, for the Petitioner.
Messrs. Jacob Clayman and William Bell, of Mansfield, Ohio, for
• the C. I. O.
Mr. Martin T. Camacho, of counsel, to the Board.
DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition duly filed, hearing in this'case was held at Bucyrus,
Ohio, on June 21, 1946, before Louis S. Belk-in, Trial Examiner. The
Trial Examiner's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial
error and are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in the case, the National Labor Relations
Board makes the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYER
The Crawford Steel Foundry Company is an Ohio corporation,
having its principal place of business in Bucyrus, Ohio, where it is
engaged in the manufacture of rough steel castings. The principal
raw materials used by the Employer are scrap steel, pig irons, alloys
and sand. The Employer's annual purchases of such materials for
the past year amounted to more than $300,000 in value, of which ap-
proximately 70 percent originated at points outside the State of Ohio.
For the same period the Employer's manufactured products were in
excess of $800,000, of which approximately 25 percent was shipped
to points outside the State of Ohio.
1 The pleadings were amended at the hearing to name the Petltlonel as shown above.
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THE CRAWFORD STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY 151
The Employer admits and we find that it is engaged in commerce
within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.
'II. TIIE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
The Petitioner is an unaffiliated labor organization 2 claiming to
represent employees of the Employer.
United Steelworkers of America, Local Union No. 3348, herein
called -C. I. 0.,3 is a labor organization affiliated with Congress of
Industrial Organizations, claiming to represent employees of the
Employer.
III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
The Petitioner, by letter on or about March 16, 1946, requested
recognition as the exclusive bargaining representative of employees of
the Employer. The Employer never replied to the letter, and has
continued td' refuse the Petitioner recognition.
We find that a question affecting commerce has arisen concerning
the representation of employees of the Employer, within the meaning
of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the-Act.
IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT
We find, in, accordance with the stipulation of the parties, that
all production and maintenance employees of the Company at its
Bucyrus, Ohio plant, including laboratory employees, but excluding
watchmen, office and clerical employees, part-time employees, proba-
tionary employees , foremen , assistant foremen, and all or any other
supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, dis-
cipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of employees, or
effectively recommend such action, constitute a unit appropriate for
the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of Section
9 (b) of the Act 4
2 The C. I. O. at the hearing declined to stipulate that the Petitioner is a labor organ-
ization within the meaning of the Act . Evidence adduced at the hearing disclosed that
the Petitioner is composed of -a group of employees organized and established for the
purposes of engaging in collective bargaining with respect to wages and other matters
concerning working conditions Hence, it is clear that the Petitioner is a labor organiza-
tion within the meaning of Section 2 (5) of the Act.
3 The C I. 0 which presently represents the employees involved in this proceeding
was permitted to intervene at the hearing
* At the hearing the, parties stipulated to the statement that the appropriate unit should
be the identical unit pieviously found appiopriate by the Board in Matte) of The Crawford
Steel Foundry Company, 58 N. L It. B. 428. However, there followed a description of
the unit as it is set forth supra, which is identical with the unit described in the contract
between the C. I. 0 and the Employer . It is to be noted that the latter described unit is
not identical with that described in the cited case in that the unit found appropriate in
that case , on the basis of a stipulation of the parties , included watchmen and part-time
employees and did not refer to probationary employees . Notwithstanding this apparent
inconsistency , we are persuaded that the unit described at the hearing and adopted supra
is that which was intended and agreed to by all parties.
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DIRECTION OF ELECTION
As part of the investigation to ascertain representatives for the
purposes of collective bargaining with The Crawford Steel Foundry
Company, Bucyrus, Ohio, an election by-secret ballot shall be,conducted
as early as possible, but not later than thirty (30) days from the date
of this Direction, under the direction and supervision of the Regional
Director for the Eighth Region, acting in this matter as agent for the
National Labor Relations Board, and subject to Article III, Sections
10 and 11, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 3, as amended, among the employees in the unit found appro-
priate in Section IV, above, who were employed during the pay-roll
period immediately 'preceding the date of this Direction, including
employees who did not work during said pay-roll period because they
were ill or on" vacation or temporarily laid off, and including,emp]oyees
in the armed forces of the United States who present themselves in
person at the polls, but excluding those employees who have since quit
or been discharged for cause and have not been rehired or reinstated
prior to the date of the election, to determine whether they desire to
be represented by Crawford Steel Foundry Company Union of Bucy-
rus, Ohio, or by United Steelworkers of America, Local Union No.
3348, C. I. 0., for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither.