The Cudahy Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 20, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 157 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY and PACKING-
HOUSE WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, LOCAL, 55A, AFFILIATED
WITH THE C. I. O.
Case No. B-3566
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 20, 1942
On April 3, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued a
Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.'
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on May 1, 1942, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minneapolis,
Minnesota). On May 2, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pur-
suant 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 ob-
jections 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 on eligibility list---------------------------------/ 89
Total ballots cast-------------------------------------- 73
Total ballots challenged________________________________ 1
Total blank ballots-------------------------------------- ' none
Total void ballots-------------------------------------- none
Total. valid vates5counted_------------------------------- 73 (sic)
Votes cast for Packinghouse Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, Loear55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0------------- 45
Fotes'cast against Packinghouse Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, Local 55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0------------ 27
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, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended,
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41 N. L. 1l B . No 32.
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158 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Packinghouse 11Torkers Organizing
Committee, Local 55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been desig-
nated and selected by a majority of all office and clerical employees
and salaried plant clerks of The Cudahy Packing Company, New-
port,- Minnesota, including employees of the. timekeeping,. book
keeping and tabulation, accounts payable, transportation, credit,
order, and loss and gain departments, the direct livestock, office- and
the sales, invoice, beef and provision desks; stenographers (including
the credit manager's stenographer, but not those of the general man-
ager, the plant 'superintendent, or the office manager) ; comptometer,
ditto machine, telegraph, and telephone operators; the yardmaster;
livestock clerks (including one in South St. Paul) ; employment
office and claim clerks; plant clerks on office pay roll; messengers;
mail boys, and the office janitor, but excluding executives, department
superintendents, plant foremen, and office supervisory employees; the
general manager,` the plant superintendent, and the office manager,.
and their stenographers; the manager of the beef and provision
desks and of the transportation and credit departments; the assistant
manager of the'beef desk, assistant' office manager, and assistant sales
manager;' draftsmen, watchmen, salesmen, cafeteria employees, time-
study men,, supply clerk (working in plant), the car route man„
livestock buyers, and persons employed on special construction proj-
ects; employees for whom Local 55 of the same international organi-
zation has been certified by the Board as exclusive bargaining agent;
engineers, firemen and helpers, for whom Local 55 has been recog-
nized as exclusive bargaining agent by the Company, all assistant
department superintendents, -the heads of -timekeeping,' accounts pay-
able, invoicing, -bookkeeping, plant clerks, and direct livestock, as
their "representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that, pursuant to Section 9' (a)_ of the Act, Packinghouse Workers
Organizing Committee, Local 55A, affiliated with the 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.