American Red Cross, Carolinas Blood Services Region

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Feb 25, 2011

11-RC-006732 (N.L.R.B. Feb. 25, 2011)

NOT INCLUDED IN BPH
BOUND VOLUMES Charlotte, NC
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
AMERICAN RED CROSS,
CAROLINAS BLOOD SERVICES
REGION
Employer
and Case 11-RC-6732
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION #71,
AFFILIATED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
Petitioner
DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE
The National Labor Relations Board, by a three-member panel, has considered
objections to an election held on July 22, 2010 and the administrative law judge’s
decision recommending disposition of them. The election was conducted pursuant to a
Corrected Decision and Direction of Election. The tally of ballots shows 68 for and 66
against the Petitioner, with 2 challenged ballots.1
The Board has reviewed the record in light of the exceptions and briefs, has
adopted the judge’s findings2 and recommendations, and finds that a certification of
representative should be issued.

1 The judge recommended sustaining the challenge to Brenda Long’s ballot and,
as a result, finding that Ruth Baza’s challenged ballot is not determinative and thus
should remain unopened and uncounted. In the absence of exceptions, we adopt the
judge’s recommendations pro forma.
2 The judge was sitting as a hearing officer in this representation proceeding. The
Employer has excepted to some of the hearing officer’s credibility findings. The Board’s
established policy is not to overrule a hearing officer’s credibility resolutions unless the
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE
IT IS CERTIFIED that a majority of the valid ballots have been cast for Teamsters
Local Union #71, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and that it is
the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the employees in the following
appropriate unit:
All full time and regular part time collection specialists I and II, collection
technicians I and II, mobile unit assistants I, II, and III, mobile unit supply clerk,
and mobile unit technician, employed by the Employer at the blood collections
operations department of the Charlotte, North Carolina service area, during the
payroll period ending June 18, 2010; but excluding all nurses, medical
technologists, administrative assistants II and III, autologous directed services
coordinator, compliance specialist II, mobile unit assistant specialist, training
specialist, assistant team supervisor, collection manager, collection operations
supervisor, compliance manager, mobile unit supervisor, scheduling supervisor,
scheduler, team supervisors, office clerical employees, and professional
employees and supervisors as defined in the Act.
Dated, Washington, D.C., February 25, 2011.
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Craig Becker, Member
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Mark Gaston Pearce, Member
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Brian E. Hayes, Member
(SEAL) NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

clear preponderance of all the relevant evidence convinces us that they are incorrect.
Stretch-Tex Co., 118 NLRB 1359, 1361 (1957). We have carefully examined the record
and find no basis for reversing the findings.