Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 10, 1941

32 N.L.R.B. 197 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT DIVISION OF FAIRCHILD, ENGINE
& AIRPLANE CORPORATION and INTERNATIONAL ASSN. OF MACHINISTS
(AFL)
Case No. R-200
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : rnn-ofC election directed.
SUPPLEMENT DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
June 101 1941
On May 13,1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled proceeding,' directing inter alia that an election by secret
ballot be conducted among certain employees of Fairchild Aircraft
Division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation, Hagerstown,
Maryland, herein called the Company, to determine whether, they
desired to be represented by International Association of Machinists
(AFL), herein called the I. A. M., by Independent Aircraft Workers,
Inc., unaffiliated, herein called the Independent, or by United Auto-
mobile Workers of America, Aircraft Division, affiliated with the
Congress of Industrial Organizations, herein called the United, for
the purposes of collective bargaining or by none of these labor
organizations.
Pursuant to the decision and Direction of Election an election by
secret ballot was conducted among such employees on May 28, 1941,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Fifth Region (Baltimore, Maryland). On May 29, 1941, the Re-
gional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended,
prepared and duly served upon the parties an Election Report, set-
ting forth inter alia the following results of the aforesaid election:
Total on Eligibility list___________________________________ 1,185
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 1,087
Total ballots challenged---------------------------------- 9
Total blink ballots--------------------------------------- 2
1 31 N L R B 833
32 N L. R B., No 99.
197
498 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Total void ballots----------------------------- -------------- 0
Votes cast for International Association of Machinists (AFL)_ 317
Votes cast for Independent Aircraft Workers, Inc., unaffiliated_ 383
Votes cast for United Automobile Workers of America, Air-
craft Division ( CIO)___________________________________ -201
Votes cast for None of these Unions ____________________177
No objections to the Election Report were thereafter filed by any
of the parties.
On June 3, 1941, the I. A. M. filed a formal request for a run-off
election to be held by the Board.
Although none of the competing labor organizations received a
majority of the votes cast, the results of the election show that a sub-
stantial majority of the employees in question desire to bargain col-
lectively with the Company. Accordingly we shall direct a run-off
election in which such employees will be given an opportunity to decide
whether they desire to be represented by the I. A. M., the Independent,
or the United, for the purposes of collective bargaining.
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
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
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation authorized by the Board
to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining
with Fairchild Aircraft Division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane
Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland, an election by secret ballot shall
be conducted as early as possible but not later than thirty (30) days
from the date of this Second Direction of Election under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the Fifth Region, acting
in this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and
subject to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules and Regulations, among
the employees described in the Direction of Election issued on May
13, 1941, but excluding those who have since quit or been discharged
for cause, to determine whether they desire to be represented by Inter-
national Association of Machinists, (AFL), by Independent Aircraft
Workers, Inc., unaffiliated, or by United Automobile Workers of Amer-
ica, Aircraft Division, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations, for the purposes of collective bargaining.
MR. WM. M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of the
above Supplemental Decision and Direction of Election.