Griffin Wheel Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 28, 1948

80 N.L.R.B. 1471 (N.L.R.B. 1948)

In the Matter' of GRIFFIN WHEEL COMPANY, EMPLOYER and INTER-
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL No. B-110,
A. F. L., PETITIONER
Case No. 18-RC-99.-Decided December 28, 1948
DECISION
AND
ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before a hearing
officer of the National Labor Relations Board. The hearing officer's
rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are
hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the National Labor Relations Act.
2. The Petitioner is a labor organization claiming to represent em-
ployees of the Employer.'
3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the represen-
tation of employees of the Employer, within the meaning of Section
9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act, for the following
reasons:
The Petitioner seeks to represent a unit which it describes as con-
sisting of all journeymen electricians, electrician foremen , electrical
leadmen, and electrician helpers and apprentices at the Employer's
St. Paul, Minnesota, plant. The record discloses that the Employer
employs but one individual, an electrician in the maintenance depart-
ment, who would be within this unit. As the unit sought consists of
only a single employee, we find, in accordance with established prece-
dent, that it is inappropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining.2
We shall therefore dismiss the petition.'
'The production and maintenance employees at the Employer 's plant are represented
by Local 1117 of United Electrical , Radio and Machine Workers of America , CIO, which
holds a presently existing contract covering such employees . Although a representative
of the Local attended the hearing and testified , this organization did not seek to intervene.
2 Matter of International Salt Company , Inc, 74 N. L. R B. 1253 ; Matter of Distributors
Association of the Norfolk Area, et at., 73 N. L. R. B. 656
8 We find it unnecessary , in view of this decision , to resolve the issue of whether the
work of the maintenance electrician is that of a skilled craftsman.
80 N. L. R. B., No. 230.
1471
1472 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ORDER
Upon the basis of the foregoing findings of fact and upon the
entire record in the case, the National Labor Relations Board hereby
orders that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.