The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 7, 1941

36 N.L.R.B. 796 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY and
UNITED RETAIL AND WHOLESALE EMPLOYEES OF AMERICA, C. I. O.
Case No. R-2645
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 7, 1941
On August. 5, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled proceeding.' On September 17 and October 4, 1941,
respectively, the Board issued a Supplemental Decision and Order 2
and a Second Supplemental Decision, Order, and Second Direction
of Election.3 Pursuant to the Second Direction of Election, a run-
off election by secret ballot was conducted on October 15, 1941,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for
the Tenth Region (Atlanta, Georgia). On October 21, 1941, 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 a Supplemental
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 its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible--------------------------------------- 109
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 104
Total number of ballots cast for United Retail and Wholesale
Employees of America, C. I. 0---------------------------- 64
Total number of ballots cast for International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers, Local
Union No. 728, Affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor---------------------------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots-------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots ------------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots------------------------------ 0
1 33 N. L. R. B., No. 189.
2 35 N. L. R. B., No. 102.
9 35 N. L. R. B., No. 102a.
36 N. L. R. B., No. 167.
796
THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY 797
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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,
IT js HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Retail and Wholesale Em-
ployees of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organ-
izations, .has been designated and selected by a majority of all
warehouse employees of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company,
Atlanta, Georgia, including truck drivers and helpers and tahe four
colored porters in the bakery shop, but excluding all other employees
in the bakery shop, supervisory and clerical employees, and butchers,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and
that pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National
Labor Relations Act, United Retail and Wholesale Employees of
America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
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.