Armour & Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 12, 1939

18 N.L.R.B. 255 (N.L.R.B. 1939)

In the Matter of ARMOUR & COMPANY and UNITED PACKINGHOUSE
WORKERS LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION No. 347, THROUGH P. W. O. C.,
AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O.
Case No. R-1561
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 12, 1939
On October 24, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Election in
the above-entitled proceeding.' On October 27, 1939, the Board
issued an Amendment to the Decision and Direction of Election.2
Pursuant to the Amendment to the Decision and Direction of Elec-
tion, an election by secret ballot was conducted on November 21,
1939, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On November 28,
1939, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report.
The Regional Director reported the following results of the ballot :
Total number eligible ---------- ---------------------------- 7253
Total ballots cast --- ---------------------------------------- 6468
Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 56
Total blank ballots________________________________________ 46
Total void ballots -------------------- :---------------------- 59
Total valid ballots cast_____________________________________
Total ballots cast for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
0307
Workmen of North America, Local 661___________________ 1047
Total ballots cast for United Packinghouse Workers Local
Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse Workers
Organizing Committee____________________________________ 4006
Total ballots cast for neither _______________________________ 1254
No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report
have been 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
1 16 N. L. R. B. 345.
116 N . L. R. B. 351.
18 N. L. R. B., No. 40.
255
256 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
8 and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 2,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Packinghouse Workers Local
Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing
Committee, has been designated and selected by a majority of the
production and maintenance employees of Armour and Company,
-at its Chicago, Illinois, plant, including general office and dressing-
room janitors and matrons, plant storeroom employees, production
and maintenance employees at the Ashland cold storage freezer, and
butchers in the retail meat market of the Company, but excluding
supervisors, foremen, and assistant foremen, clerical and office
workers, timekeepers, steady-time checkers and scalers, firemen,
policemen, and watchmen, guides, student employees, medical de-
partment employees, teamsters and chauffeurs, garage mechanics
and helpers, bricklayers, safety inspectors, chemists and technicians,
employees in the plant restaurant, Morris garage and parking lot
employees, street cleaners, messengers, tel-autograph employees, label
storage department employees, and the stationery department em-
ployees, as their representative for purposes of collective bargaining,
and pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Packinghouse
Workers Local Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse
Workers Organizing Committee, 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.