General Dry Batteries, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 24, 1941

30 N.L.R.B. 543 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of GENERAL DRY BATTERIES, INC. and BATTERY
`'VORKERS' FEDERAL LABOR UNION No. 22516, A. F. or, L.
Case No. R-2283
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 24, 1941
On February 21, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
1 ings.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on March 6, 1941, under the direction and super-
vision of the Regional Director, for the Eighteenth- Region (Min-
neapolis, Minnesota). On March 8, 1941, the Regional Director, act-
ing 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 an Election Report. No objections to the
conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any
of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number of ballots cast-------------------------------- 540
Total number of ballots counted---------------------------- 539
Total number of ballots cast for Battery Workers' Federal
Labor Union No. 22516, A F. of L----------------------- 370
Total number of ballots cast for United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers of America, Local 812, C I. 0---------- 167
Total Number of ballots cast for neither of the above organi-
zations -------------------------------------------------- 2
Total number of blank ballots------------------------------ 0
Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots-------------------------- 1
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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 Boi rd Rules and Regulations-
Series 2, as amended,
' 29 N. L R B 1017.
30 N L. R B, No. 84.
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544 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
-IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Battery Workers' Federal Labor
Union No. 22516, A. F. of L. has been designated and selected by
a majority of the employees of General Dry Batteries, Inc., em-
ployed at its plant in Dubuque, Iowa, excluding office, clerical, super-
visory and machine-shop employees, as their' representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to the provi-
sions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Battery
Workers' Federal Labor Union No. 22516, A. F. of L., is the ex-
clusive 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.