International Shoe Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jan 14, 1942

38 N.L.R.B. 216 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY and UNITED RUBBER
WORKERS 'OF AMERICA, LOCAL $$198, AFFILIATED WITH C. I. 0. ' -
In the Matter Of INTERNATIONAL `SHOE COMPANY and UNITED SHOE
WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL No. 100-A
In 'the Matter Of INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY and WESTERN
BROTHERHOOD OF SHOE AND RUBBER WORKERS
Cases Nos. R-2882 , R-2883, and R-323.3, respectively
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION,OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 14, 1.942
--On November 21, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board,
herein called the,Board, issued its Decision and Direction of,Election 1
'in the above-entitled proceedings. Pursuant to the Direction of
Election, an election by secret ballot was, conducted on December 12,
1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
'for the Fourteenth Region (St. Louis,. Missouri), among employees
at the Rubber Plant "of International Shoe Company, Hannibal,
Missouri, herein called the Company.2 On December 13, 1941, the
Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of Na-
tional Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as
.amended, -issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report.
No objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report
have been filed by any of the parties.
1 36 N L R B. 1173.
2 In its Decision and Direction of Election noted above, the Board deferred elections to be held among the
Company's employees at the Bluff City Plant and at the Seventh Street Plant until manufacturing opera-
tions at the Bluff City Plant should be resumed and the plant functioning normally
38 N. L. R. B., No. 55.
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INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY 217
As to the balloting among employees at the Rubber Plant and its
results, the Regional Director reported as follows:
Number of names on eligibility list- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 771
Number of ballots cast------------------------------------- 497
Number of ballots challenged___________________------------------- ------- --- I
Number of blank ballots ___________________ 1
Number of void ballots--- --------------- ---------- ------- 0
Number of valid votes counted ------------- --------------- 495
Number of ballots voted for United Rubber Workers of Amer-
ica, Local #198, C. I. O--------------------------------- 294
Number of ballots voted for Western Brotherhood of Shoe and.
. Rubber Workers__-- ----------------- ------------ -------- 164
Number of ballots voted for neither-------------- ---------- 37
In 'its Decision and Direction of Election to which reference is made
above, the Board stated that upon the results of the election should
depend in part the appropriate unit, that "if a majority of such em-
ployees 3 select the Rubber - Workers 4 as their bargaining agent, we
shall find that such employees constitute an appropriate bargaining
unit and shall certify the Rubber Workers as their bargaining agent."
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
SUPPLEMENTAL FINDINGS OF FACT
We find that-all production and maintenance employees of Inter-
national Shoe Company at the Rubber Plant, Hannibal, Missouri,
including employees in the canvas footwear department, but excluding
clericol,'office, and supervisory employees, bonded watchmen, labora-
tory employees, and the engineering staff, constitute a unit appro-
priate for the purposes of collective bargaining. We further find that
said unit will insure to employees of the Company the,full benefit of
their right to self-organization and to collective bargaining and will
otherwise effectuate the policies of the National Labor Relations Act.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONCLUSION OF LAW
All production and maintenance employees of International Shoe
Company at the Rubber Plant, Hannibal, Missouri, including
employees in the canvas footwear department, but excluding clerical,
office, and supervisory employees, bonded watchmen, laboratory
employees, and the engineering staff, constitute a unit appropriate for
the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of Section
9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
3 Such employees" refers to all production and maintenance employees of the Company at the Rubber
Plant, Hannibal , Missouri , including employees in the canvas footwear department , but excluding clerical,
office, and supervisory employees , bonded watchmen , laboratory employees , and the engineering staff.
4 United Rubber Workers of America , Local #198, affiliated with C. I 0 , was so designated by the Board
in its previous Decision.
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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 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 #198, affiliated with C. I. 0., has been designated and selected
by a majority of all production and maintenance employees of Inter-
national Shoe Company at the Rubber Plant, Hannibal, Missouri,
including employees in the canvas footwear department, but excluding
clerical, office, and supervisory employees, bonded watchmen, labora-
tory employees, and the engineering staff, 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 # 198,
affiliated with C. I. 0., 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.
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