General Electric Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 3, 1941

32 N.L.R.B. 284 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY and UNITED ELECTRICAL,
RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 1412 (C. 1. 0.)
Case No. R-58.-Decided June 3, 19/1
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon consent election.
Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter, for the Board.
Mr. John Hood, of Oakland, Calif., for the Company.
Mr. Leo Turner, of Oakland, Calif., for the Union.
Mr. Louis Cokin, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On April 23, 1941, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
of America, Local 1412 (C. I. 0.), herein called the Union, filed with
the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region (San Francisco, Cali-
fornia) a petition alleging that a question affecting commerce had
arisen concerning the representation of employees of General Electric
Company, herein called the Company, engaged in the manufacture of
electrical apparatus at Oakland, California, and requesting an investi-
gation and certification of representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c)
of the Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On May 6. 1941, the
Company, the Union, and the Regional Director entered into a
"STIPULATION FOR CERTIFICATION UPON CONSENT
ELECTION." On May 8, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board,
herein called the Board, acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act
and Article III, Section 3, of National Labor Relations Board Rules
and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, ordered an investigation and
authorized the Regional Director to conduct it and to provide for an
appropriate hearing upon due notice.
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on May 14, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director among all production, maintenance, and warehouse
employees at the Oakland Works of the Company, excluding clerical
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workers, technical employees, executives, and forcine,i, to determine
whether or not they desire to be represented by the Union. On May
15,1 1941, the Regional Director issued and duly served upon the parties
an Election Report on the ballot. No objections to the conduct of
i he ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
In her Election Report, the Regional Director reported as follow-
concerning the balloting and its results :
Total number eligible to vote ------------------------------ 226
Number of votes for United Electrical. Radio and M ichine
Workers of America, Local 1412 (C I O ) --------------- 163
Number of votes against United Electrical, Radio and M ubnie
Workers of America, Local 1412 (C I 0 ) --------------- 59
Total number of votes counted ----------------------------- 222
Number of blank ballots---------------------------------- 0
Number of void ballots------------------------------------- 0
Number of challenged ballots------------------------------ 0
Upon the basis of the stipulation, the Election Report, and the entire
record in the case, the Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. A question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre-_
sentation of employees of General Electric Company, Oakland, Call-
fornia, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7)
of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All production, maintenance, imd warehouse employees at the
Oakland Works of the Company, excluding clerical workers, technical
employees, executives, and foremen, constitute a unit appropriate for
the purposes of collective bargaining, within the meaning of Section
9 (b) of the Act.
3. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Loca 1
1412 (C. I. 0.), has been designated and selected by a majority of the
employees in the above unit as their representative for the purposes of
collective bargaining, and is the exclusive representative of all the
employees in said unit, within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the
National Labor Relations Act.
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (d) of the National Labor Relations Act
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local 1412 (C. I. 0,), has been selected by a
majority of all production , maintenance , and warehouse employees
at the Oakland Works of General Electric Company, Oakland, Cali-
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fornia, excluding clerical workers, technical employees, executives,
and foremen, as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, -Local 1412
(C. I. 0.), is the exclusive 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.