Armour & Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 5, 1939

18 N.L.R.B. 122 (N.L.R.B. 1939)

In the Matter of ARMOUR & COMPANY and LOCAL 261,
MEAT CUTTERS UNION
Case No. R-143
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 5, 1939
On October 27, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Supplemental Decision and Second Direc-
tion of Election in the above-entitled case.' Pursuant to the Second
Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted
on November 10, 1939, under the direction and supervision of the
'Regional Director for the Second Region (New York City). On
November 16, 1939, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article
III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regu-
lations-Series 2, issued and duly served upon the parties her Elec-
tion Report. 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 eligible to vote________________________________ 540
Total number of ballots cast ________________________________ 504
Total number of ballots counted____________________________ 502
Total number of ballots cast for Meat Cutters Union, Local
261, chartered by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America, affiliated with the American.
Federation of Labor______________________________________ 371
Total number of ballots cast against Meat Cutters Union,
Local 261, chartered by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor____________________________ 131
Total number of blank ballots ______________________________ 2
Total number of void ballots _______________________________ 0
Total number of challenged ballots_________________________ 0
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
1 16 N. L. R. B. 574. The Supplemental Decision and Second Direction of Election
was issued following an election held on September 29, 1939, pursuant to a Decision and
Direction of Elections issued in these proceedings and reported in 15 N. L. It. B. 268.
18 N. L. R. B., No. 16.
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ARMOUR & COMPANY 123
Lions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 2,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Meat Cutters Union, Local 261, char-
tered by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been
designated and selected by a majority of all production and main-
tenance employees of Armour & Company at its 6th Street and 17th
Street plants in Jersey City, New Jersey, including watchmen, em-
ployees performing checking, weighing, and clerical duties inside
the plants where the production and maintenance work is carried
on, employees in the motive-power department, the mechanical de-
partment, and the garage department, shipping clerks, retail clerks,
janitors, dishwasher and chef, yard gang, storeroom man, and laun•
dry man, but excluding supervisory, employees, assistant foremen, all
clerical help doing work in the Company offices, separate and apart
from the production and maintenance workers, chemists, peddler
salesmen, chauffeurs, and T. Hannigan , as their representative for
the purposes of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Section
9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Meat Cutters Union,
Local 261, chartered by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America, 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.
MR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of
the above Certification of Representatives.