The Western Union Telegraph Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 14, 1941

36 N.L.R.B. 955 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY and
COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS' UNION, LOCAL ,# 10, AFFILIATED WITH
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. R-2790
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 14, 1941
On September 26, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued
a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding 1
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was
conducted on October 13, 1941, under the direction and supervision of
the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City,
Missouri). On October 14, 1941, the Regional Director, acting pursu-
ant 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 objections 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------------------------------------- 180
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 131
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------ 0
Total blank ballots---------------------------------------- 0
Total void ballots----------------------------------------- 0
Total valid votes cast------------------------------------- 131
Votes cast for Commercial Telegraphers' Union, Local #10,
affiliated with the A. F. of L----------------------------- 92
Votes cast for United Telegraphers' Union------------------ 35
Votes cast for neither------------------------------------- 4
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re-
lations 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,
1 35 N. L. R. B., No. 177.
36 N. L. R. B., No. 197.
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956 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Commercial Telegraphers' Union Local
#10, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been
designated and selected by a majority of all employees at the Omaha,
Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, offices of The Western Union
Telegraph Company, excluding supervisory employees, confidential
clerks, temporary employees, "other employment" employees, and dis-
tribution messengers, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section
9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Commercial Telegraphers'
Union, Local #10, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,
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.