General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 18, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 540 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, TERNSTEDT MANU-
FACTURING DIVISION and SOCIETY OF DESIGNING ENGINEERS, LOCAL
No. 201, AFFILIATED WITH THE FEDERATION OF ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS,
CHEMISTS AND TECHNICIANS, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. 0.
Case No. R-3690.Decided July 18, 1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon consent election.
Mr. H. M. Hogan, Mr. A. F. Power, Mr. Denton Jolly, and Mr.
Robert C. Carson, of Detroit, Mich., for the Company.
Mr. Joseph S. Jacoby and Mr. S. 0. Blackburn, of Detroit, Mich.,
for the Union.
Mr. Armin Uhler, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On July 22, 1940, Society of Designing Engineers, Local No. 201,
affiliated with the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians, affiliated with the C. I. O., herein called the Union, filed
with the Regional Director for the Seventh Region (Detroit, Michi-
gan) a petition alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen
concerning the representation of employees of General Motors Cor-
poration, Ternstedt Manufacturing Division, herein called the Com-
pany, engaged in the production of automobile and household appli-
ances, hardware, and parts and accessories at Detroit, Michigan, and
requesting an investigation and certification of representatives pur-
suant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat.
449, herein called the Act. On June 13, 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 Rela-
tions 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
11, 1941, the Board, the Company, and the Union entered into a
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GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 541
"STIPULATION FOR CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES UPON CONSENT ELECTION."
Pursuant to the Stipulation, an election was conducted on June
20, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
among all designers, detailers, checkers, tracers, and blueprint-machine
operators in the Tool Drafting Department and Product Engineer-
ing Department of the Company, excluding supervisors, plant engi-
neer, chief engineers, chief draftsmen, clerks, and stenographers, to
determine whether said employees desire to be represented for the
purpose of collective bargaining by the Union. On June 23, 1941,
the Regional Director issued and duly served upon the parties an
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.
As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total on eligibility list-------------------------------------- 57
Total ballots cast----------------------------------- 56
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 0
Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 1
Total void ballots-------------------------------------------- 0
Total valid votes cast ------------------------------ ------ 55
Votes cast for Local 201, Society of Designing Engineers, affili-
ated with the Federation of Architects, Engineers , Chemists
and Technicians , affiliated with the C. I. 0----------------- 53
Votes cast against Local 201, Society of Designing Engineers,
affiliated with the Federation of Architects , Engineers, Chem-
ists and Technicians , affiliated with the C. I 0-------------- 2
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 General Motors Corporation, Ternstedt
Manufacturing Division, Detroit, Michigan, within the meaning of
Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
2. All designers, detailers, checkers, tracers, and blueprint-machine
operators in the Tool Drafting Department and Product Engineering
Department of the Company, excluding supervisors, plant engineer,
chief engineers, chief draftsmen, clerks, and stenographers, constitute
a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within
the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the Act.
3. Society of Designing Engineers, Local No. 201, affiliated with
the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians,
affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a ma-
jority of the employees in the above unit as their representative for
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the purposes of collective bargaining and is the exclusive represent-
ative of all the employees in said unit within the meaning of Section
9 (c) of the 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 IIEREBY3 CERTIFIED that Society of Designing Engineers, Local
No. 201; affiliated with the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chem-
ists and Technicians, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been designated
and selected by a majority of all designers, detailers, checkers, tracers,
and blueprint-machine operators in the Tool Drafting Department
and Product Engineering Department of General Motors Corpora-
tion, Ternstedt Manufacturing Division, Detroit, Michigan, exclud-
ing supervisors,, plant engineer, chief engineers, chief draftsmen,
clerks, and stenographers, as their representative for the purposes of
collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section
9 (a) of the Act, Society of Designing Engineers, Local No. 201,
affiliated with the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians, affiliated with the 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.