Hewitt Rubber Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 23, 1941

32 N.L.R.B. 1018 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of HEWITT RUBBER CORPORATION and UNITED RUBBER
WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL No. 188
Case No. R-05,9
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 3S, 1941
On May 20, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election , an elec-
tion by secret ballot was conducted on June 6, 1941 , under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the Third Region (Buf-
falo, New York ). On June 7, 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--------------------------------------- 907
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 851
Total ballots challenged-------------------------------------- 8
Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------ 0
Total valid ballots cast-------------------------------- -- 843
Votes cast for Hewitt Employees Association------------------ 277
Votes cast for United Rubber Workers of America, Local No 188,
C I. 0---------------------------------------------------- 548
Votes cast for neither---------------------------------------- 18
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 Rubber Workers of America,
Local Union No. 188, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organi-
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zations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all produc-
tion and maintenance employees of Hewitt Rubber Corporation,
Buffalo, New York, including employees in the fuel tank department,
but excluding executives, supervisory employees, and office employees,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Rubber Workers of
America, Local Union No. 188, 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.