Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 25, 1940

25 N.L.R.B. 859 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of YELLOW TRUCK &C COACH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
and PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH AIVIERICA, AFFILIATED
WITH THE A. F. L.
III the Matter Of YELLOW TRUCK & COACH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
and INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF
AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O.
Cases Nos. R-1835 and R-1836
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 25, 1940
On June 12, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board; issued a Decision and Direction of Elections in
the above-entitled proceedings., Pursuant to the Direction of Elec-
tions, elections by secret ballot were conducted on May 26, 1940,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for
the Seventh Region, (Detroit, Michigan). On June 27, 1940, the
Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended, issued an Elections Report, copies of which were duly
served, upon the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows:
PATTERN AND MODEL MAKERS
Total number eligible to vote-------------------------------- 18
Total number of ballots cast-------------------------------- 15
Total number of valid votes cast--------------------------- 15
Total number of votes for Pattern Makers' League of'North
America, affiliated with American Federation of Labor__-_ 15
Total number of votes against Pattern Makers' League of
North America, Affiliated with American Federation of
Labor- ---- ---------------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots -------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots------------------------------ 0
Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 0
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25 N I, R B, No 06
859
860 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES, AND MECHANICAL EMPLOYEES IN
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SHOPS
Total number eligible to vote____________________________ 5, 835
Total number of ballots cast_______________________________ 5, 278
Total number of valid votes cast________________________ 5, 250
Total number of votes for International Union, United Auto-
mobile Workers of America, affiliated with Congress of
Industrial Organizations ________________________________ 4,655
Total number of votes against International Union, United
Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with Congress
of Industrial Organizations_____________________________ 595
Total number of challenged ballots_______________________ 14
Total number of blank ballots____________------------ ----------------- 11
Total number of void ballots______________________________ 3
No objections to the conduct of the elections or to the Elections
Report were filed by any of the parties.
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations 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,
r IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Pattern Makers' League of North
America has been designated and selected by a majority of all per-
sons employed as pattern and model makers by Yellow Truck &
Coach Manufacturing Company, Pontiac, Michigan, at the Rapid
Street Building of its Pontiac plant, as their representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a)
of the Act, Pattern Makers' League of North America is the exclu-
sive representative of all persons employed as pattern and model
makers at said building, for the purposes of collective bargaining in
respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other
conditions of employment; and
IT is FURTHER - CERTIFIED that - International Union, United Auto-
mobile Workers of America has been designated and selected by a
majority of all production and maintenance employees and mechani-
cal employees employed by Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing
Company, Pontiac, Michigan, in engineering-department shops of
said Company, at its Pontiac plant, but excluding the following
employees : direct representatives of the management, such as officers
and directors of the Company; sales managers and assistant sales
managers; factory managers and assistant factory managers; direc-
tors and employees of sales, accounting, personnel, and industrial-
relations departments; directors of purchases and assistant directors
of purchases; superintendents and assistant superintendents; gen-
eral foremen, foremen, and assistant foremen, and all other persons
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working in a supervisory capacity, including those having the right
to hire or discharge and those whose duties include recommendation
as to hiring or discharging (but not leaders) ; employees whose work
is of a confidential nature; time-study men; plant-protection. em-
ployees (but not maintenance patrolmen or fife patrolmen) ; ` all
clerical employees; chief engineers and shift-operating engineers in
power plants; designing (drawing board), production estimating
and planning engineers; draftsmen and detailers; physicists; chem-
ists; metallurgists; artists, designer-artists, and clay and plaster
modelers; timekeepers; technical school students; indentured appren-
tices and technical or professional employees receiving special train-
ing; kitchen and cafeteria help; and all employees engaged as pat-
tern and model makers at the Rapid Street Building 'of said
Company's Pontiac plant, as their representative for the purposes
of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the
Act, International Union, United Automobile Workers of America
is the exclusive representative of all production and maintenance
employees and mechanical employees in said engineering-department
shops, but excluding those employees excepted as set forth above,
for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay,
wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.
Mr. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of 'the
above Certification of Representatives.