Autry Greer & Sons

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 5, 1955

112 N.L.R.B. 44 (N.L.R.B. 1955)

44 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
the Petitioner is sufficiently stable to warrant the holding of an im-
mediate election.'
[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication.]
MEMBER LEEDOM took no part in the consideration of the above
Decision and Direction of Election.
6 Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Company, 107 NLRB 1327.
Autry Greer & Sons and Teamsters , Chauffeurs, Warehousemen
and Helpers, Local Union No. 991 , AFL, Petitioner. Case No.
15-RC-1178. April 5,1955
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National
Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before William P. Hutcheson,
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 the case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer, a partnership, is engaged in the retail grocery
business. All of its business establishments are located within the
State of Alabama. The Petitioner seeks to represent employees em-
ployed in the Employer's feed, produce, "wholesale," 1 and retail ware-
house departments. The Employer contends that each of these de-
partments is a separate Employer within the meaning of the Act and
that as, individually, such departments do not do a sufficient amount of
interstate business to meet the Board's jurisdictional standards juris-
diction should not be asserted in the case. Although some of the Em-
ployer's business units, including the departments involved in the
case, are operated with a certain degree of independence in that they
are under the separate immediate supervision of different managers,
maintain separate bookkeeping systems and, to a certain extent, buy
and sell from one another, the record reveals that the general manage-
ment of all of the units is handled through the partnership's central
office, by the various partners, that the wages of the employees in all
of the units are paid from the central office, and that a substantial
amount of the purchases for all of the units are made by that office.
The record further indicates that although unit managers may recom-
mend the establishment of or changes in personnel and labor relations
policies the ultimate decisions in such matters rest with the partners.
Upon the foregoing we find that all of the Employer's combined op-
1 The word wholesale does not accurately describe the operations of this department.
.It does no wholesale selling. It sells retail in large quantities to institutions and ships.
112 NLRB No. 6.
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