Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 29, 1940

27 N.L.R.B. 1142 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of DREAMLAND BEDDING & UPHOLSTERY Co., JOHN HORY
COMPANY , PACIFIC FELT COMPANY , ROME CO., INC., RUTHERFORD &
HOOD, SAN FRANCISCO BEDDING COMPANY , SUNSET FEATHER COM-
PANY , WILSON & JANSEN and UNITED FURNITURE WORKERS OF
AMERICA CIO # 262, FURNITURE WORKERS UNION #1541, A. F. OF L.
Cases Nos. RE-7 to RE-13 inclusive
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 29, 1940
On April 19, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Elections in the
above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elections an
election by secret ballot was conducted on April 26 among the em-
ployees of Premier Bed and Spring Company, a corporation doing
business under the trade name of Rome Co., Inc., San Francisco, Cali-
fornia. On July 29, the National Labor Relations Board issued a
Third Supplemental Decision, Order,'and Supplemental Direction of
Election 2 wherein it ordered that the election conducted on April 26
and the results thereof be set aside and determined of no effect what-
soever, and directed that an election by secret ballot be conducted as
soon as possible after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the
date of the posting of certain notices therein set forth. Pursuant
to the Third Supplemental Decision, Order, and Supplemental Direc-
tion of Election; an election by secret ballot was conducted on October
15 under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for
the Twentieth Region (San Francisco, California). On October 15,
the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as
amended, issued her Second Supplemental Election Report, copies of
which were duly served upon the parties. No objections to the con-
duct of the, ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of
the parties.
As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows : 4.
122 N L R. B. 1120.
2 25 N. L. R. B. 26.'
27 N. L. R. B., No. 186.
1142
DREAMLAND BEDDING & UPHOLSTERY CO. 1143
Total number eligible to vote --------------------------------- 95
Number of votes for Furniture Workers Union, Local 1541,
A F. L--------------------------------------------------- 67
Number of votes for United Furniture Workers of America, -
Local 262 , C. 1. 0------------------------------------------ 21
Number of votes for neither- --------------------------------- 1
Total number of votes counted-------------------------------- 89
Number of blank ballots------------------------------------- 0
Number of void ballots--------------------------------------- 0
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-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that, Furniture Workers Union, Local
#1541, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
A. F. of L., has been designated and selected by a majority of em-
ployees of Premier Bed and Spring Company, a corporation doing
business under the trade name of Rome Co., Inc., San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, engaged in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling,
or handling of furniture and bedding or parts thereof, including fore-
men engaged generally as working foremen, helpers, apprentices,
maintenance men, and all other workers, but excluding executives,
salesmen, truck drivers, general office employees, shipping clerks, non-
working foremen engaged generally in supervisory non-working
duties, and foremen who take no part in the fabricating, "repairing,
renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture, bedding, or- parts
thereof, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Furniture Workers
Union, Local #1541, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America, A. F. of L., is the exclusive bargaining representative of
all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in re-
spect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other con-
ditions of employment.