General Electric Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 30, 1953

104 N.L.R.B. 603 (N.L.R.B. 1953)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (RIVER WORKS) 603
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (RIVER WORKS) and LOCAL
201, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRICAL, RADIO
AND MACHINE WORKERS, CIO and PATTERN MAKERS
LEAGUE OF NORTH AMERICA, LYNN ASSOCIATION (AFL).
Cases Nos . 1-RC-2301 and 1-R-1756. April 30, 1953.
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND ORDER
On September 29, 1944, the Board certified' the Pattern
Makers League of North America, Lynn Association (AFL),
herein called the Pattern Makers League, as the representa-
tive for the Employer's wood and metal patternmakers and
their apprentices. On November 13, 1951, the Board certified
Local 201, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Ma-
chine Workers, CIO, herein calledlUE, as the representative of
a production and maintenance unit, which inter alia, excluded
wood and metal patternmakers and their apprentices.2 There-
after, on December 10, 1952, the Employer filed a request
for clarification of the status of employees making plaster
patterns for "Kirksite" dies. On January 2, 1953, the Board
issued a notice to show cause why the Board should not in-
clude in the unit represented by the Pattern Makers League
employees making plaster patterns for "Kirksite" dies. On
January 16, 1953, the IUE filed an answer in opposition to the
request of the Employer for clarification of unit. Thereupon,
the Board on February 3, 1953, ordered the Regional Director
for the First Region to hold a hearing. On February 19, 1953,
pursuant to said order, a hearing was held before Leo J.
Halloran, hearing officer. All parties appeared and participated
in the hearing. The hearing officer's rulings made at the
hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby
affirmed.
Upon the basis of the evidence adduced at said hearing and on
the entire record' in the instant cases, the Boards makes the
following supplemental findings:
In the latter part of 1950, the wood and metal patternmakers
in the Employer's pattern shop were, in addition to their
regular duties, assigned work on a new process involving the
use of plaster forms for castings for Kirksite4 dies. In May
of the following year, this function was transferred to a
separate building known as the development shop where it was
given to 2 sheet metal employees who were reclassified as
plaster form makers and trained during a 9-week period to
build models to specifications by a series of applications of
plaster. However, a survey by the Employer in ensuing
months revealed that while these two employees could make
i Following an election held pursuant to the Board 's Decision and Direction of Election in
Case No. 1-R-1756, 58 NLRB 57.
Z Foowing a consent election for this unit in Case No. 1-RC-2301.
SPursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the Act , the Board has delegated its powers
in connection with these cases to a three- member panel [ Members Houston, Murdock, and
Styles].
4 Kirksite is the trade name of the metal that is used to make castings for the dies.
104 NLRB No. 88.
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plaster patterns, they were not qualified to make other pat-
terns required for Kirksite dies. Thus, whenever wood patterns
were needed for these dies, the pattern shop was called upon
to furnish them. As a result, in October 1952, plaster form
making was returned to the pattern shop, and the two employees
in the development shop were restored to their former duties
and classification of sheet metal workers in the production
and maintenance unit.
Although the work of plaster form making requires a
relatively short period of -training, it is apparent from the
foregoing that employees engaged in such duties must, at
least to the extent that wood patterns are used for Kirksite
dies, either have the skill of wood patternmakers or work in
close association with these craft employees. Accordingly,
we find that the employees currently assigned the duties of
making plaster forms for Kirksite dies should be included
in the craft unit represented by the Pattern Makers League.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the certifications of repre-
sentatives issued in the instant cases be, and they hereby are,
amended to include in the wood and metal patternmakers unit
and exclude from the production and maintenance unit em-
ployees making plaster forms for Kirksite dies.'
SThis Order is not to be construed as a recertification.
THE W. H. REISNER MFG. CO., INC. and INTERNATIONAL
UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT & AGRICUL-
TURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, and its
LOCAL 824, Petitioner. Case No. 5-RC-1187. April 30,
1953
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND ORDER
Pursuant to a stipulation for certification upon consent elec -
tion between the Employer and the Petitioner, an election was
held under the supervision of the Regional Director on Novem-
ber 7, 1952. A tally of ballots furnished to the parties shows
that out of approximately 94 eligible voters 46 cast ballots for
and 45 against the Petitioner, 3 of the ballots having been
challenged.
On November 10, 1952, the Petitioner filed objections to
conduct affecting the results of the election . As the challenges
were sufficient to affect the results of the election, the Regional
Director caused an investigation to be made concerning the
challenged ballots and the Petitioner's objections, and on
December 30, 1952, issued his report on challenges and objec-
tions. As to the 3 challenged ballots, the Regional Director
recommended that the challenges to 2 of them be sustained and
that the challenge to the other be overruled and this ballot be
104 NLRB No. 85.