General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 27, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 27 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of CHEVROLET KANSAS CITY DIvIsI1oN, GENERAL MOTORS
CORPORATION and LOCAL #723, INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTO-
MOBILE WORSERS OF AMERICA , AFFILIATED WITH THE CONGRESS OF
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Case No. 8-2528
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 27,1941
On June 2, 1941 , the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board , issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled proceeding1 Pursuant to the Direction of Election , an elec-
tion by secret ballot was conducted on June 18 , 1941, under the direc-
tion and supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth
Region (Kansas City , Missouri ). On June 19, 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 on the ballot. No
objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have
been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results , the Regional Director reported
as follows
Total on eligibility list_____ _______________________________ 1,051
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 1,015
Total ballots challenged ----------------------------------- 7
Total blank ballots____ ____________________________________ 2
Total void ballots----------------------------------------- 1
Total valid votes cast_____________________________________ 1,005
Votes cast for International Union , United Automobile Work-
ers of America , affiliated with A. F. of L., No. 93 ----------- 214
Votes cast for United Automobile Workers of America, affili-
ated with the C. I. 0____________________________________ 776
Votes cast for neither the A . F. of L . nor the C. I. 0----------- 15
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,
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 United Automobile Workers of America,
affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations , has been
132 N . L. R. B. 249.
33 N. L. R. B., No. 4.
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designated and selected by a majority of all production and mainte-
nance employees and mechanical employees in engineering department
shops at Chevrolet Kansas City Division of General Motors Corpora-
tion , including employees in the service parts department , but ex-
cluding pattern makers, die sinkers, direct representatives of the
management , such as officers and directors of the Company, sales
managers and assistant sales managers , factory managers and assistant
factory managers , directors and employees of sales , accounting, per-
sonnel, and Industrial Relations Departments , directors of purchases
and assistant directors of purchases , superintendents and assistant
superintendents , general foremen, foremen and assistant foremen, all
other persons working in a supervisory capacity, including those hav
ing the right to hire or discharge and those whose duties include rec•
ommendation as to hiring , or discharging (but not leaders), those
employees whose work is of a confidential nature, time -study men,
plant protection employees (but not to include maintenance patrolmen
or fire patrolmen ), clerical employees, chief engineers and shift-operat-
ing engineers in power plants , designing ( drawing board), production
estimating and planning engineers , draftsmen and detailers , physi-
cists, chemists , metallurgists , artists , designer-artists, clay and plaster
modelers (but not those who make patterns ), timekeepers , technical
school students , indentured apprentices , technical or professional em-
ployees who are receiving special training , and kitchen and cafeteria
help , as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining,
and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Automobile
Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organ-
izations, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the
purpose of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.