32 N.L.R.B. 1001 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

Ford Motor Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board DecisionsJun 21, 1941

32 N.L.R.B. 1001 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of FORD MOTOR COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, and INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O. Cases Nos. R-2425 and R40426 SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES June 01, 1941 On April 7, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Elections'- in the above-entitled proceeding. The Board therein directed that elec- tions be conducted as soon as practicable among (1) all production, maintenance, and clerical employees employed at the Lincoln plant, Detroit, Michigan, of the Ford Motor Company, herein called the Company, at any time during March 1941, with certain exclusions hereafter noted, to determine whether they desired to be represented by International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., or by American Federation of Labor, Federal Labor Union No. 22550, or by neither; (2) all production, maintenance, and clerical employees at the River Rouge plant of the Company, Dearborn, Michigan, who were employed at any time during March 1941, with certain exclusions hereafter noted, to deter- mine whether they desired to be represented by International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., or by American Federation of Labor, Federal Labor Union No. 22551, or by neither; and (3) all pattern makers, wood and metal, who were employed at the River Rouge plant of the Company, Dear- born, Michigan, at any time during March 1941 to determine whether they desired to be represented by Pattern Makers League of -Detroit and Vicinity, affiliated with Pattern Makers League of North America, or by International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., or by neither. In its Decision and Direc- tion of Elections, the Board stated that a determination of the appropriate unit or units for the Company's River Rouge plant 1 30 N . L. R. B. 9S5. 32 N. L. R. B., No. 161. 1001 1002 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD would depend in part upon the results of the elections held among the employees in Groups 2 and 3 above. The Board therein said : If the groups of employees participating in each of the elec- tions at the River Rouge plant of the Company select the same representative, they will together constitute a single appropriate unit. If they choose different representatives, they will consti- tute separate appropriate units. Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, separate elections by secret ballot were conducted at the Company's Lincoln plant, Detroit, Mich- igan, and at the Company's River Rouge plant, Dearborn, Michigan, on May 21, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventh Region (Detroit, Michigan). On June 3, 1941, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties his Elections Report. No objections to the conduct of the ballots or to the Elec- tions Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results at the Company's Lincoln plant, the Regional Director reported as follows : Total all valid votes ballots only Total on poll list ---- --------- --_-- :--------------- 7276 ---- Total votes cast ------------------------------------- 2929 __-- Total ballots challenged ______________________________ 181 ---- Total blank ballots--------------------------------- 1 Total void ballots -- --------------------------------- .__ 6 Total valid votes cast ________________________________ 2741 2741 Votes cast for International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C . I. 0------- _-__ 2008 Votes cast for American Federation of Labor, Federal Labor Union No. 22551 ------------------------------ ----- 587 Votes cast for "Neither ------------------------------- ____ 146 The Regional Director reported that he did not rule upon the chal- lenged ballots since they could not in any way affect the outcome of the election. As to the balloting and its results at the Company's River Rouge plant, the Regional Director reported as follows : Total all ballots Valid votes only Total on poll list---------------------------------- 83,354 Total votes cast------------------------------ 77,828 Total ballots challenged__________________________ 3,492 Total blank ballots__________________ 34 ------- Total void ballots-------------------------------- 114 ------ Total valid votes cast___________________________ 74,188 74,188 Votes cast for International Union, United Automo- bile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0---------------------------------------- ------ 51,866 Votes cast for American Federation of Labor, Fed- eral Labor Union No. 22550_______---------------------- ------ 20,364 Votes cast for "Neither"__________________________ 1, 958 FORD MOTOR COMPANY 1003 The Regional Director reported that he did not rule upon the chal- lenged ballots since they could not in any way affect the outcome of the election. In his Elections Report the Regional Director stated that a separate election report concerning the election held among the pattern makers at the Company's River Rouge plant would be subsequently issued. The results of the election among all production, maintenance, and clerical employees at the River Rouge plant of the Company show that International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been selected as bargaining agent by a majority of the employees voting therein. We believe, especially in view of the fact that the production, maintenance, and clerical employees at the River Rouge plant of the Company con- stitute a large majority of all the employees in that plant, that certification of a bargaining representative chosen by them should not await a determination of the question whether pattern makers are to be included in a single appropriate unit with the production, maintenance, and clerical employees at the River Rouge plant or instead comprise a separate appropriate unit.2 We shall, therefore, now issue a certification applicable to the employees of the River Rouge plant of the Company other than the pattern makers. This certification will not, of course, preclude the possibility that Inter- national Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., may be certified as the bargaining agent for a larger unit following our determination regarding the pattern makers. After we have received an election report from the Regional Director concerning the balloting and its results among the pattern makers employed by the Company at its River Rouge plant, we shall issue a supplemental decision in which we shall finally determine the appropriate unit or units at that plant. 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 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 International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been designated 2 See Matter of Leviton Mfg. Company , Inc. and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 3 (A . F. of L.), 27 N. L. R . B. 744 , 28 N. L . R. B. 22; Matter of Armour d Co. and United 1'ackinghoacse Workers Industrial Union, Local 153, affiliated with the C. I. 0., 15 N. L. R. B. 827 ; Matter of Standard Forgings Corporation and Lodge 1720, Amalgamated Association of Iron , Steel d Tin Workers of North America, S . W. O. C., 0. 1. 0., et al ., 29 N. L . R. B. 290. 1004 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD and selected by a majority of all production, maintenance, and cleri- cal employees employed at the Lincoln plant of Ford Motor Com- pany, Detroit, Michigan, exclusive of direct representatives of the management such as officers and directors of the Company; sales managers and assistant sales managers; factory managers and assist- ant factory managers; directors and employees of sales, accounting, personnel, and industrial relations departments; directors of pur- chases and assistant directors of purchases; superintendents and assistant superintendents; general foremen, foremen, and assistant foremen; all other persons working in a supervisory capacity (but not leaders, pushers, or inspectors) including follow-up men and those having the right to hire or discharge, and those whose duties include recommendation as to hiring or discharging; sociological workers and personnel investigators; service men; plant-protection employees; time-study men; all clerical and secretarial employees (including telephone operators) in the office building and in the offices of the building superintendents and department superintendents and in the branch stock offices, and in main and badge. cribs; designing (draw- ing board), production, estimating and planning engineers; drafts- men and detailers; physicists; chemists; metallurgists; artists; de- signer artists; clay and plaster modelers (but not those who make patterns) ; timekeepers; training-school students (but not appren- tices) instructors and clerks in all schools; fire-department chiefs, captains, inspectors, clerks, leaders, and their assistants; kitchen, cafeteria, and dining-room help (but not auxiliary help from pro- duction or maintenance departments) ; hospital and first-aid em- ployees, and field men for medical department (but not maintenance employees in hospital department) ; safety inspectors; and stock checkers, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar- gaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other condi- tions of employment; and IT Is HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Union, United Automo- bile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been desig- nated and selected by a majority of all production, maintenance, and clerical employees at the River Rouge plant of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, exclusive of pattern makers, wood and metal, and their apprentices; direct representatives of the management such as officers and directors of the Company; sales managers and assistant sales managers; factory managers and assistant factory managers; directors and employees of sales, accounting, personnel and industrial FORD MOTOR COMPANY 1005 relations departments ; directors of purchases and assistant directors of purchases; superintendents and assistant superintendents; general foremen, foremen, and assistant foremen; all other persons working in a supervisory capacity (but not leaders, pushers, or inspectors) including follow-up men and those having the right to hire or dis- charge, and those whose duties include recommendation as to hiring or discharging; sociological workers and personnel investigators; service men; plant protection employees; time-study men; all clerical and secretarial employees (including telephone operators) in the Rotunda and Administration buildings and in the offices of building superintendents and department superintendents and in the branch stock offices and in main and badge cribs; designing (drawing board), production, estimating and planning engineers; draftsmen and de- tailers; physicists; chemists; metallurgists; artists; designer artists; clay and plaster modelers (but not those who make patterns) ; time- keepers; training-school students (but not apprentices) ; instructors and clerks in all schools; fire-department chiefs, captains, inspectors, clerks, leaders and their assistants; kitchen, cafeteria and dining- room help (but not auxiliary help from production or maintenance departments) ; hospital and first-aid employees, and field men for medical department (but not maintenance employees in hospital department) ; safety inspectors; stock checkers; all employees in en- gineering and airport buildings; and all employees of the photo- graphic department, including those who. work on blueprints, as their representative for the purposes of collective, bargaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Realtions Act, International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affili- ated with the C. I. 0., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.