Walworth Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 9, 1940

22 N.L.R.B. 815 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter Of WALWORTH COMPANY and PATTERN MAKERS LEAGUE
OF NORTH AMERICA (A. F. OF L.)
In the Matter of WALWORTH COMPANY and STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZ-
ING COMMITTEE ON BEHALF OF A. A. I. S. T. OF N. A.
Cases Nos. R-1670 and R-1673, respectively
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
AND
ORDER
April 9, 1940
On February 26, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Election in
the above-entitled proceedings.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elec-
tion, an election by secret ballot was conducted on March 19, 1940,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Sixth Region (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). On March 21, 1940, the
Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of Na-
tional Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations- Series 2, as
amended, issued an Election Report, copies of which were duly
served upon the parties. 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 number of eligible voters____________________ __________ 30
Total number of ballots counted___ __________________________ 28
Total number of votes for Pattern Makers League of North
America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor__ 16
Total number of votes for Steel Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, on behalf of the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel & Tin Workers of North America, affiliated with the
Congress of Industrial Organizations ______________________ 11
Total number of votes for neither__ ________________________ 1
Total number of blank ballots______________________________ 0
Total number of challenged ballots___________________________ 12
Total number of void ballots ________________________________ 0
120 N . L R B 854
2 The Regional Director ruled that the challenged ballot would not be counted since it
would not affect the result of the election.
22 N. L. R. B., No 54.
815
816 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
SUPPLEMENTAL FINDINGS OF FAGr
In the Decision and Direction of Election previously referred to,
the Board did not, pending the election, make a final determination
as to the appropriate unit for the purposes of collective bargaining,
but stated that if Pattern Makers League of North America, (A. F.
of L.) obtained a majority at the election, the pattern-shop employees
would constitute a separate unit.
We find that the pattern-shop employees of The Walworth Com-
pany, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, including Robert E. Bender, J. S.
Hudock, and H. J. Bagley, but excluding H. Henninger, foremen,
and assistant foremen, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes
of collective bargaining and that said unit will insure to employees
of such Company the full benefit of their right to self-organization
and to collective bargaining and otherwise effectuate the policies
of the Act.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONCLUSION OF LAw
The pattern-shop employees of The Walworth Company, Greens-
burg, Pennsylvania, including Robert E. Bender, J. S. Hudock, and
H. J. Bagley, but excluding H. Henninger, foremen, and assistant
foremen, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective
bargaining, within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National
Labor Relations Act.
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 IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Pattern Makers League of North
America (A. F. of L.) has been designated and selected by a majority
of the pattern-shop employees of The Walworth Company, Greens-
burg, Pennsylvania, including Robert E. Bender, J. S. Hudock, and
H. J. Bagley, but excluding H. Henninger, foremen, and assistant
foremen, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act, Pattern Makers League of North America (A. F.
of L.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the
purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.
WALWORTH COMPANY
ORDER
817
By virtue of Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of Na-
tional Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as
amended,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for investigation and
certification of representatives of employees of The Walworth Com-
pany, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, filed by Steel Workers Organizing
Committee on November 8, 1939, be, and it hereby is, dismissed, with-
out prejudice to the existing certification of Steel Workers Organizing
Committee as representative of employees of such Company.3
8 Matter of Walworth Company and Pattern Makers ' Association of Pittsburgh and
Vicinity, etc.; Matter of Walworth Company and Steel Workers ' Organizing Committee on
behalf of the A. A. I. S. T. of N. A , 15 N. L. R. B 53.