Electrical Utilities Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 19, 1945

60 N.L.R.B. 1340 (N.L.R.B. 1945)

In the Matter Of ELECTRICAL UTILITIES COMPANY and DISTRICT 50,
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA
Case No. 13-R-0237
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
SECOND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
March 19, 1945
On April 7,1944, pursuant to the Decision and Direction of Election
issued by the Board on March 13, 1944,1 and Amendment to Direction
of Election issued on March 31, 1944,2 an election by secret ballot was
conducted under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On April 10, 1944,
District 50, United Mine Workers of America, herein called District
50, filed Objections to the election. On July 18, 1944, after a hearing
on these Objections was held pursuant to the Board's Order of May
10, 1944, the Board issued a Decision and Order Setting Aside,Elec-
tion,3 in which District 50's Objections were sustained and the election
was set aside. It was further provided that a new election would
be directed at such time as the Regional Director advised to be
appropriate.
The Regional Director having on March fi, 1945, advised the Board
that the time is now appropriate, we shall direct that a second election
by secret ballot be conducted among the employees in the unit here-
tofore found appropriate. Those eligible to vote shall be all em-
ployees in the appropriate unit who were employed during the pay-
roll period immediately preceding the date of our Second Direction of
Election herein, subject to the limitations and additions set forth in
the Direction.4
SECOND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board, by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations
1 55 N. L. R. B. 457.
2 55 N. L. R. B. 1004.
8 57 N. L. R. B. 399.
* In view of the lapse of time since the first election , eligibility to vote is to be determined
by a current pay roll, as set forth above.
60 N. L . R. B., No. 232.
1340
ELECTRICAI4 UTILITIES COMPANY 1341
Act, and pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Rela-
tions Board Rules and Regulations-Series 3, as amended, it is hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Electrical Util-
ities Company, LaSalle, Illinois, a second election by secret ballot
shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than sixty (60)
days from the date of this Second Direction of Election, under the
direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Thirteenth
Region, acting in this matter as agent for the National Labor Rela-
tions Board,, and subject to Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of said
Rules and Regulations, among the employees in the unit heretofore
found appropriate in Section IV of our Decision and Direction of
Election, issued on March 13, 1944, who were employed during the
pay-roll period immediately preceding the date of this Second Direc-
tion of Election, including employees who did not work during said
pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation or temporarily
laid off, and including employees in the armed forces of the United
States who present themselves in person at the polls, but excluding
any who have since quit or been discharged for cause, and have not
been rehired or reinstated prior to the date of the second election,
to determine whether they desire to be represented by Electrical Util-
ities Workers, Local Union No. 12765, District 50, United Mine Work-
ers of America, or by Local B-321, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor;
or by neither.
'Names of unions are indicated in accordance with the Amendment to Direction of
Election, supra.