General Fire Truck Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 1, 1941

35 N.L.R.B. 1126 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of GENERAL FIRE TRUCK CORPORATION and INTERNA-
TIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILI-
ATED WITH THE C. I. O.
Case No. R-2797
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 1, 1941
On August 22, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
ing.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on September 12, 1941, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventh Region (De-
troit, Michigan). On September 15, 1941, the Regional Director,
acting 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 to the Election Report were filed by any of
the parties.
As to the balloting and the results thereof the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total on eligibility list____________________________________ 173
Total ballots cast_________________________________________ 161
Total ballots challenged___________________________________ 1
Total blank ballots_______________________________________ 0
Total void ballots_________________________________________ 0
Total valid votes cast____________________________________ 160
Votes cast for Mechanics Educational Society of America____ 20
Votes cast for International Union, United Automobile Work-
ers of America, C. I. O_________________________________ 139
Vbtes cast for neither_____________________________________ 1
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations, Series
2, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Union, United Automo-
bile Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been desig-
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nated and selected by a majority of all hourly and piece work
production employees of the Company, including all salaried em-
ployees performing mechanical and production work, janitors, main-
tenance men, and truck drivers, but excluding clerical and office'
employees, foremen, assistant foremen, supervisory employees, the
clean-up man, and shipping clerks, as their representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to the provisions
of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, International
Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the
-C. I. 0., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the
purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.