A. O. Smith Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 27, 1957

119 N.L.R.B. 621 (N.L.R.B. 1957)

A. 0. ' SMITH CORPORATION 621
V. THE REMEDY
Having found that Respondent had engaged in certain unfair labor practices viola-
tive of Section 8 (1) (A) and (4) of the Act, it will be recommended that it cease
.and desist therefrom , and take certain affirmative action designed to effectuate
the policies of the Act.
Having found that Respondent discriminatorily restrained Mendelsohn from being
,employed for a certain period commencing on June 14 , 1956, the Trial Examiner
recommends that Respondent make him whole for any loss of pay suffered by him
as a result of its unlawful conduct, by payment to him of a sum of money equal to the
amount he normally would have earned as wages from June 14, 1956, until he
would have been laid off, absent unfair labor practices . In computing the amount
.of back pay due Mendelsohn , the customary formula of the Board set forth in
F. W. Woolworth Company, 90 NLRB 289, shall be followed.
The unfair labor practices found to have been engaged in by the Respondent
are of such a character and scope that in order to insure the employees and prospective
employees of the members of Respondent their full rights guaranteed by the Act,
it will be recommended that Respondent cease and desist from in any manner inter-
fering with, restraining, and coercing said employees and prospective employees in
their right to self-organization.
Upon the basis of the above findings of fact, and upon the entire record in the
case , the Trial Examiner makes the following:
CONCLUSIONS oP LAW
1. International Longshoremen 's and Warehousemen 's Union, Local #37 is a
labor organization within the meaning of Section 2 (5) of the Act.
2. Respondent and its employer-members are engaged in commerce within the
meaning of Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
3. By discriminating in regard to the hire and tenure of employment of Peter
Patrick Mendelsohn because he had filed with the Board a charge against a member
of the Respondent , Respondent has engaged in and is engaging in unfair labor prac-
tices within the meaning of Section 8 (a) (3) of the Act.
4. The unfair labor practices are unfair labor practices within the meaning of
.Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
[Recommendations omitted from publication.]
A. O. Smith Corporation , Kankakee Works and Local 311, Office
Employees International Union , AFL-CIO,, Petitioner. Cases
Nos. 13-RC-5554 and 13-RC-4f01. November 07,1957
DECISION AND ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a hearing was held before Robert G. Mayberry, hearing
'officer.' The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free
from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case,' the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the Act.
2. Local 311, Office Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, the
Petitioner in Case No. 13-RC-5554, herein called Local 311, and
,Office Employees International Union, AFL-CIO,2 the petitioner in
Case No. 13-RC-4201, herein called the International, the labor or-
1 For purposes of this Decision , Cases Nos . 13-RC-5P54 and 13-RC-4201 are hereby
,consolidated.
Affiliated only with AFL at the time the petition in Case No . 13-RC-4201 was filed.
110 NLRB No. 82.
622 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ganizations involved herein, claim to represent certain employees of
the Employer.
3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa-
tion of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section
9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act in Case No. 13-RC-
5554 for the following reasons :
Local 311 seeks an election in a unit previously certified by the
Board 3 comprising all office and clerical employees at the Employer's
Kankakee, Illinois, plant. It would include 18 unrepresented clericals
in the Smithway sales, Harvestore service, Harvestore sales, credit,
administration, and inspection departments of the Employer who
were included in the Board's original certification but who were
neither permitted to vote in the earlier election nor thereafter repre-
sented. In the alternative, it desires to have its certification clarified
to include the 18 clericals.
The record shows that, on a petition filed by the International in
Case No. 13-RC-4201, the Board found appropriate a unit of all the
Employer's office and clerical employees at the Kankakee plant.'
Thereafter, on April 4, 1955, the parties entered into a stipulation to
clarify the Board's unit, describing the unit in terms of specific de-
partments rather than as found by the Board. The eligibility list,
prepared in accordance with the stipulation, failed to include the 18
clericals involved herein, who, as a result, were not permitted to vote
in the election held April 18, 1955. Although the International was
certified thereafter on April 26, 1955, for the unit of all office and
clerical employees as described in the Board's decision, two subsequent
contracts between the Employer and Local 311, not raised as bars to
the proceeding in Case No. 13-RC-5554, covered the employees in
the unit stipulated to by the parties rather than in the unit certified
by the Board. Thus, the 18 clerical employees, who were included
in the Board's certification, have at all times since been deprived of
their franchise and of their right to representation. Because Local 311
and the International have failed to represent 18 of the clericals,
contrary to the 1955 certification covering all of them, we find such
conduct to be contrary to the policies and purposes of the Act and
that it would therefore be inconsistent with good practice to permit
such certification to remain in effect. We shall, accordingly, revoke
the certification granted by the Board on April 26, 1955, in Case No.
13-RC-4201 with prejudice to filing a new petition.5 In these cir-
cumstances, we also shall dismiss the petition in Case No. 13-RC-5554.
3 A. 0. Smith Corporation, Kankakee Works, 111 NLRB 1042.
4 A. 0. Smith Corporation, Kankakee Works, supra.
5 Somerville Iron Works, Inc., 117 NLRB 1702; Nathan Warren & Sons, Inc., 116&
NLRB 1662.
ARMOUR AND COMPANY 623.
[The Board revoked the certification issued on April 26, 1955, in
Case No. 13-RC-4201, dismissed the petition filed in Case No. 13-RC-
5554 and ordered that revocation of the certification in Case No.
13-RC-4201 and dismissal of the petition in Case No. 13-RC-5554
be with prejudice to the filing of a new petition by Local 311, Office
Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, or by Office Employees
International Union, AFL-CIO, for a period of 6 months from the
date of this Order, unless good cause is shown why the Board should
entertain a new petition filed prior to the expiration of such period.]
MEMBER MulmocK took no part in the consideration of the above
Decision and Order.
Armour and Company and United Packinghouse Workers of
America, AFL-CIO, Petitioner . Case No. 18-RC-3266. Novem-
ber 27,1957
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National
Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before William D. Boetticher,
hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are
free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the Act, the Board
has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-member
panel [Chairman Leedom and Members Bean and Jenkins].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of'
the Act.
2. The labor organization involved claims to represent certain
employees of the Employer.
3. A question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa-
tion of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section 9
(c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
4. The Petitioner, whose Local 73 represents the Employer's pro-
duction and maintenance employees, seeks to represent a unit of office
and clerical employees. In the alternative, it is willing to represent
the employees involved in any unit or units found appropriate by the
Board, but requests that, if any of them are found to be plant clericals,
such employees be added to the existing production and maintenance
unit. The Employer does not object to a unit of office clericals, but
contends that plant clericals should be represented separately from
both office clericals and production and maintenance employees. In
addition, it contends that a number of the employees whom the
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