General Electric Supply Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 21, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 699 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of CLEVELAND DISTRICT OF GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPPLY
CORPORATION and UNITED ELECTRICAL , RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS
OF AMERICA , LOCAL 7707 (C. I. 0.)
Case No. R-2704.=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. A. Head, of Cleveland, Ohio, for the Company.
Mr. C. C. Saunders, of Cleveland, Ohio, for the Union.
Miss Marcia Hertz'mark, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On May 5, 1941, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of
America, Local 707 (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 Cleveland District of General
Electric Supply Corporation, herein called the Company, engaged
in the wholesale distribution of electrical material at Cleveland, Ohio,
and requesting an investigation and certification of representatives
pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49
Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On June 24, 1911, 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 June 23, 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 con-
ducted on June 26, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the
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Regional Director among all servicemen and warehousemen employed
at the Company's Cleveland plant, excluding supervisors and office
workers, to determine whether or not they desired to be represented
by the Union. On June 26, 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 to 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 -------------------------------------- 26
Total ballots cast---------------------------- --------- 23
Total ballots challenged------------------------------'------- 1
Total blank ballots ------------------------------------------ 0
Total void ballots -------------------------- --------------- 0
Total valid votes cast ---------------------------------------- - 22
Votes cast for `United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
of America, Local 707 (C. I. 0 )--------------------------- 12
Votes cast against United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
of America, Local 707 (C. I 0.) ---------------------------- 10
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 Cleveland District of General Electric
Supply Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, within the meaning of Section
9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.'
2. All servicemen and warehousemen employed at the Cleveland
plant of the Company, exclusive of supervisors and office workers,
constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations
Act,
3. United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers 'of America, Local
707 (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 (c) of the National Labor. Relations,
Act, ;
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America, Local 707 (C. I. 0.), has been designated and
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selected by a majority of the servicemen. and warehousemen of the
Cleveland plant of the Company, excluding supervisors and office
workers, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing, and that, -pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the Act,
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, Local 707,
(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.