General Motors Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 17, 1942

43 N.L.R.B. 296 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter, of GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, CHEVROLET' MOTOR
DIVISION, (GEAR AND AXLE-DETROIT) and INTERNATIONAL UNION,
UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT
WORKERS' OF AMERICA (UAW-CIO)
Case No. R-1[13-5.-Decided August 17,1942
Investigatipn and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon consent election.
Mr. Frank 11. Bowen, for the Board.
Mr.'Henry M. Hogan and Mr. Denton Jolly, of Detroit, Mich., for
the Company.
Mr. Frederick IV. Bibber, of Detroit, Mich., for the Union.
Mr. Louis Cokin, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OP THE CASE
Upon petition duly filed by International Union, United Automo-
bile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, herein
called the Union, alleging that a question affecting commerce had
arisen concerning the representation of employees of General Motors
Corporation, herein called the Company, engaged at Detroit, Michi-
gan in_ the manufacture of equipment for the United States armed
forces; the National Labor Relations Board provided for an appro-
priate hearing upon due notice. On July 22, 1942, before a hearing
was held, the Company, the Union, and the Regional Director for the
Seventh Region (Detroit, Michigan) entered into a "STIPULATION FOR
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON CONSENT ELECTION."
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on July 29, 1942, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director, among all factory, shipping, and receiving clerks in
the material departments located in Plants 2 and 4 of the Chevrolet
Motor Division of the Company, excluding foremen, the chief clerk,
and other supervisory employees, to.determine whether, or not they
desired to be represented by the Union for the purposes of collective
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bargaining. On July^30, 1942, the Regional Director isshed'and duly
served upon the parties an Election Report on the ballot. No objec-
tions 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_______________________________________ 13
Total ballots cast-------------------------------------------- 10
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 0
Total blank ballots---------------------------------------=-- 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------- - 0
Total valid votes cast---------------------------------------- 10
Votes cast for International Union,, United Automobile, Aircraft
and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO) _ 8
Votes cast against International Union, United Automobile, Air-
craft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-
CIO) ----------------------------------------------------- 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, Chevrolet
Motor Division (Gear and Axle), Detroit, Michigan, within the mean-
ing of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor
Relations Act.'
2. All factory, shipping and receiving clerks in the material depart-
ment located in Plants 2 and 4 of the Chevrolet Motor Division of the
Company, excluding foremen, the chief clerk, and other supervisory
employees, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective
bargaining, within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the Act.
3. International Union, United Automobile Aircraft and Agricul-
tural Implement Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations 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 repre-
sentative of all employees in said unit, within the meaning of Section
9 (a) of the Act. ^
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relation's Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, '
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IT Is HEREBY CERTIFIED that International'Union, United Automobile,
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, affiliated
with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been designated
and selected by a majority of all factory, shipping and receiving clerks
in the material department located in Plants 2 and 4 of Chevrolet
Motor Division (Gear and Axle) of General Motors Corporation; De-
troit, Michigan, excluding foremen, the chief clerk , and other super-
visory employees, as their representative for the purposes of collec-
tive-bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act;
International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural
Implement Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Indus-
trial Organizations, is the, exclusive representative of all such em-
ployees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of
pay, wages , hours of employment , and other conditions of employment.