General Electric Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 21, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 688 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, CLEVELAND WIRE WORKS
PLANT a'nd LOCAL 707, UNITED ELECTRICAL , RADIO & MACHINE
WORKERS OF AMERICA (C. I. 0.)
Case No. R-2640.-Decided July 21, 1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for Certification
of Representatives upon consent election.
Mr. Hugh E. Sperry, for the Board.
Mr. L. G. Cover, of Euclid, Ohio, for the Company.
Mr. Cliff Saunders, of Cleveland, Ohio, for the Union.
Miss Marcia Hertzmarh, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On May 19, 1941, Local 707, United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America, C. I. 0., herein called the Union, filed with the
Regional Director for the Eighth Region (Cleveland, Ohio) a petition
alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the
representation of employees of General Electric Company, Cleveland
Wire Works Plant, herein called the Company, engaged. in the produc-
tion of tungsten wire and purified gases at Euclid, Ohio, and requesting
an investigation and certification of representatives pursuant to Sec-
tion 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein
called the Act. On May 21, 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.' On May 26, 1941, the Company,
the Union, and the Regional Director entered into a "STIPULATION
FOR CERTIFICATION UPON CONSENT ELECTION."
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was conducted
on June 6, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional
' On May 28 , 1941 , the Board issued an Amended Order Directing Investigation and
Hearing, in which the title of the case was corrected.
33 N. L. R. B., No. 117.
688
GENEiR'AL ELECTRIC COMPANY 689
Director, among all hourly rated production and maintenance em-
ployees of the Company., excluding electricians, plant-protection
employees, clerical employees, and supervisory employees, to determine
whether or not they desired to be represented by the Union. On June
10, 1941, the Regional Director issued and duly served upon the parties
his Election, Report on the ballot. No objections to the conduct of the
ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
In his Election Report the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the balloting and its results :
Total on eligibility list______________________________________ 392
Total ballots cast__ _________________________________________ 364
Total ballots challenged-------------------------------------- 3
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 1
Total valid ballots cast_______ _______________________________ 360
Votes cast for Local 707, United Electrical , Radio & Machine
Workers of America ( C. I. 0.) ----------------------------- 236
Votes cast against Local 707, United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America (C. I. 0.) ----------------------------- 124
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 the employees of General Electric Company, Cleveland
Wire Works Plant, Euclid, Ohio, within the meaning of Section 9,(c)
and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All hourly rated production and maintenance employees em-
ployed by the Company, excluding electricians, plant-protection em-
ployees, clerical employees, and supervisory employees, constitute a
unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the
meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
3. Local 707, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of
America, C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of
the employees in the above unit as their representative for the pur-
poses 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 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act,
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IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Local 707, United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0., has been designated and se-
lected by a majority of the hourly rated production and maintenance
employees of the Company, excluding electricians, plant-protection
employees, clerical employees, and supervisory employees, as their
representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pur-
suant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the Act, Local 707, United
Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0., is the ex-
clusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employ-
ment, and other conditions of employment.