Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 7, 1942

42 N.L.R.B. 102 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of BOHN ALUMINUM & BRASS CORPORATION Wd UNITED
PROTECTIVE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL #1
Case No R-3828
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
ORDER
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 7, 1942
On June 16, 1942, the National Laboi - Relations Board issued a
Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled pioceeding,1
directing that an election be held within thuty (30) days among the
plant-protection employees of Bohn Aluminium & Biass Company,
herein called the Company at Plant #1, Detroit, Michigan, excluding
part-tune sergeants and the chief, to determine whether or not they
desired to be represented by United Piotective Workers of America,
Local #1, herein called the Union, for the purposes of collective bar-
gaming At the hearing the parties stipulated that the Union repie-
sents all eight employees in the unit alleged by the Union to be
appropriate whose names appear on the Company's pay roll of
May 9, 1942 The parties further stipulated at the hearing that if
the Board found the unit alleged by the Union appropiiate, it might
certify the Union without an election However, no Regional Direc-
tor's statement concerning the Union's showing in support of its
representation claims was introduced in evidence, and at the hearing
the Trial Examiner made no check of the Union's authorization
cards against the Company's pay ioll On of about June 29, 1942,
the Union filed a motion that the Board certify, without an election,
the Union 'as the exclusive bargaining agent for the employees in the
unit found appropriate by the Board in its Decision and Direction
of Election On or about June 30, 1942, the Regional Director filed
with the Board a statement concerning claims of authorization for
the purpose of repiesentation in which he ieported that the Union
presented eight authorization cards, all dated in February 1942,
bearing apparently genuine signatures of persons whose names appear
on "a list of the pay roll of the police protective employees in"
Plant #1 of the Company for the week ending May 9, 1942," sub-
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BOHN ALUMINUM & BRASS CORPORATION 103
witted by the Company. The Company does not object to the Board's
certifying the Union as the exclusive representative of all employees
in the unit found appropriate by the Board The Board hereby
orders that the motion and the Regional Director's statement con-
cerning claims of authorization for the purposes of representation be
made a part of the record in-this proceeding
Upon the basis, of the entire record in the case, the Board makes
the 'following supplemental findings of fact which supersede, to the
extent that they are inconsistent therewith, the findings of fact made
in the Board's Decision and Direction of Election • -
SUPPnEMENTAL FINDINGS OF FACT
1 The plant-piotection employees of the Company at Plant #1,
Detroit, Michigan, excluding pait-time sergeants and the chief, con-
stitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining,
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations
Act
2 United Protective ' Workei s of - Amei ica, Local #1 has been
designated and selected by a majority of the employees in the above
unit as their representative for the puiposes of collective bargaining
and is the exclusive iepresentative of all the employees in said unit,
within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the Act
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Direction of Election in this pro-
ceeding, dated June 16, 1942• be, and it heieby is, vacated and set
aside
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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, -
IT IS HEREBY CFRTIFIED that United Protective Wokers of America,
Local #1 has been designated and selected by a majority of all the
plant-protection employees of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation
at Plant #1, Detroit, Michigan, excluding part-time sergeants and
the chief, as their repiesentative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that, pursuant to the piovisions of Section 9 (a) of the
Act, United Protective Workers of America, Local #1 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 GERARD D. REILLY took no part in the consideration of the above
Supplemental Decision, Order, and Certification of Representatives