The Western Union Telegraph Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 1, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 1056 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY and
TELEGRAPH EMPLOYEES INDEPENDENT UNION
In the Matter of THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY and
LOCAL 55-B , AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, AFFILIATED
WITH THE C. I. O.
Cases Nos. R-2485 and R-2493
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 1, 1941
On June 9, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled' proceeding.' On June 25, 1941, the Board issued an
Amendment to Decision and Direction of Election.2 Pursuant to
the Direction of Election, as amended, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on July 15, 1941, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Seventh Region (Detroit, Michigan).
On July 17, 1941, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article
III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regu-
lations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties
an Election Report on the ballot. No objections to the conduct of
the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
As to balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total on eligibility list_____________________________________ 841
Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 626
Total ballots challenged ------------------------------------- 36
Total blank ballots_________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 1
Total valid votes cast___________________________________ 589
Votes cast for Commercial Telegraphers Union A. F. L-------- 165
Votes cast for Local 55-B, American Communications Associa-
tion, C. I. 0---------------------------------------------- 417
Votes cast for neither--------------------------------------- 7
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,
1 32 N L. R B 428.
2 32 N L. R: B 435.
33 N. L. R. B., No. 182.
1056
THE WESTERN UNION TELEG'RAPH COMPANY 1057
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
.as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Local 55-B, American Communications
Association, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees of
The Western Union Telegraph Company working in the metropolitan
Detroit area, in the commercial, traffic, accounting, and plant depart-
ments, excluding superintendent, sales manager, city commercial
manager, chief clerk, clerk in charge of messenger personnel, man-
ager of delivery department, assistant to manager of delivery depart-
ment, clerk, and cashier in the commercial department, traffic man-
ager, night traffic managers, assistant chief operators, testing and
regulating chief, chief clerk, automatic chief, route supervisor, clerk
supervisor, supervisors in phone room, senior supervisor, automatic
and teleprinter supervisors, repeater chief, wire chief, supervisors in
telephone room, instructress in phone school and stenographer in
traffic department, city foremen, assistant foremen, and acting gen-
eral foremen in the plant department, and manager and assistant to
the accounting manager in accounting department, as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant
to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Local 55-B, American Communications
Association, 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.