Ideal Chair Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 30, 1941

37 N.L.R.B. 1051 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

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'In the Matter of PHn n' J. BYER, DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE FIRM NAME
AND STYLE OF IDEAL CHAIR MANUFACTURING Co. and 'UPHOLSTERERS
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA (AFL)
Case No.' K-3064
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 30,11941
On November 12, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
ing.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on November 28, 1941, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the First Region (Boston,
Massachusetts). On December 1, 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 his Election Report. 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 the results thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total number eligible to vote________________________________ 11
Total number of votes cast___________________________________ 10
Total number of valid votes__________________________________ 9
Total number of ballots marked for Upholsterers International
Union of North America (A. F. of L.) ---------------------- 0
Total number of ballots marked for United Furniture Workers
of America, Local No. 136 (C. I. 0.) ----------------------- 9
Total number of ballots marked for neither__________________ 0
Total number of blank ballots________________________________ 0
Total number of void ballots_________________________________ 1
Total number of challenged ballots__________________________ 0
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,
136 N. L R. B. 844.
37 N. L. It. B. No. 185.
1051
1052 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT is KEREBY CERTIFIED that United Furniture Workers of America,
Local No. 136, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
has been designated and selected by a majority of all production em-
ployees at the Boston, Massachusetts, plant of Philip J. Byer, doing
business under the firm name and style of Ideal Chair Manufacturing
Co., excluding executives, superintendents, foremen, clerical workers,
and salesmen, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the,
National Labor Relations Act, United Furniture Workers of America,
Local No. 136, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes
of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, and other conditions of employment.