General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 29, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 511 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter Of GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, CADILLAC MOTOR CAR
DIVISION and UNITED PROTECTIVE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL #1
Case No. R-3865-Decided May 29, 1942
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon consent election
Mr. Frank H. Bowen, for the Board.
Mr. Henry M. Hogan and Mr. Denton Jolly, of Detroit, Mich.,
for the Company.
Mr. Ernest Good?na72, of Detroit, Mich., for the Union.
Mr. A. Sumner Law ence, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On April 14, 1942, United Protective Workers of America, Local
#1, herein called the Union, filed with the Regional Director for the
Seventh Region (Detroit, Michigan) an amended petition alleging
that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of General Motors Corporation, Cadillac Motor
Car Division, Detroit, Michigan, herein called the Company, engaged
in the manufacture and assembly of bodies for automobiles and parts
thereof, and requesting an investigation and certification of repre-
sentatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations
Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On April 22, 1942, the
National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, ordered an
investigation and authorized. the Regional Director to conduct it and.
to provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice. On April
29, 1942, the Company, the Union, and the Regional Director entered
into a "Stipulation for Certification of Representatives Upon Con-
sent Election."
Pursuant to the Stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on May 15, 1942, under the direction and supervision of
the Regional Director among the following employees to determine
whether or not they desired to be represented by the Union : all plant
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protection employees of the General Motors Corporation, Cadillac
Motor Car Division, excluding clerks, sergeants, lieutenants, captains,
chiefs, and other supervisory employees. On May 16, 1942, the Re-
gional Director issued and duly served upon the parties his 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.
In his Election Report, the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the balloting and its results :
Total on-eligibility list-------------------------------------- 76
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 57
Total ballots challenged---------------------------------- -- 0
Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ - 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------ 0
Total valid votes counted----------------------------------- 57
Votes cast for United Protective Workers of America, Local #1- 56
Votes cast against United Protective - Workers of America,
Local #1 ----------------------------------------------- 1
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, Cadillac Motor
Car Division, Detroit, Michigan, within the meaning of Section 9
(c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All plant protection employees of .the General Motors Cor-
poration, Cadillac Motor Car Division, excluding clerks, sergeants,
lieutenants, captains, chiefs, and other supervisory employees, con-
stitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining,
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations
Act.
3. United Protective Workers of America, 'Local #1 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 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 Rela-
tions Act,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Protective Workers of America,
Local #1 has been designated and selected by a majority of all
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plant protection employees of the General Motors Corporation, Cadil-
lac Motor Car Division, excluding clerks, sergeants, lieutenants, cap-
tains, chiefs, and other supervisory employees, as their representative
for the purposes of collective bargaining bind that, pursuant to the
provisions of Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Protective Workers,
of America, Local #1, 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,,
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