Long Bell Lumber Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 31, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 1009 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of LONG BELL LUMBER COMPANY and LUMBER AND SAW-
MILL WORKERS UNION, LOCAL #2907, A. F. OF L.
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Case No. R-2787.-Decided July 31,1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for Certifica-
tion of Representatives upon consent election.
Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter, for the Board.
Mr. J. M. White, for the Company.
Mr. Joe Boyd, of Klamath Falls, Ore., for the Union.
Miss Marcia Hertzmark, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On May 26, 1941, and June 9, 1941, respectively, Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers Union, Local #2907, A. F. of L., herein called the Union,
filed with the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region (San
Francisco, California) a petition and amended petition alleging that
a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representa-
tion of employees of Long Bell Lumber Company, Weed, California.
herein called the Company, engaged in the manufacture of lumber and
lumber products at Weed, California and requesting an investigation
and certification of representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the
National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act
On July 8, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
,the Board, acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III,
Section 3 of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 2, as amended, ordered an investigation and authorized the
Regional Director to conduct it and to provide for an appropriate
hearing upon due notice. On June 27, 1941, the Company, the Union
and the Regional Director entered into a "STIPULATION FOR
CERTIFICATION UPON CONSENT ELECTION."
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on July 9, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director among all production and maintenance employees
and watchmen -in the Weed Manufacturing plant, including sawmill.
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pond, planing mill, box factory, sash and door factory, treating plant,
veneer plant and yard and dry kiln employees, exclusive of super-
visory, clerical and student employees, and club, store and hotel em-
ployees, to determine whether or not said employees desired to be
represented by the Union. On July 14, 1941, the Regional Director
issued and duly served upon the parties her 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.
In her Election Report the Regional Director reported as follows
concerning the balloting and its results:
Total number eligible to vote_______________________________ 1,121
Number of votes for Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union,
Local 2907, A. F. of L____________________________________ 758
Number of votes against Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union, Local 2907, A. F. of L_______________----------------------------- 199
Total number of votes counted___------------------- _----- 957
Number of blank ballots___________________________________ 3
Number of void ballots ------------------------- ---------- 6
Number of challenged ballots ______________________________ 5
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 Long Bell Lumber Company, Weed, Cali-
fornia within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7)
of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All production and maintenance employees and watchmen in the
Weed manufacturing plant, including sawmill, pond, planing mill,
box factory, sash and door factory, treating plant, veneer plant and
yard and dry kiln employees, exclusive of supervisory, clerical and
student employees and club, store and hotel employees, constitute a
unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the
meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act.
3. Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local #2907, A. F. of L.,
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 representative of all the employees
in said unit, within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act.
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,
LONG BELL BELL LUMBER COMPANY 1011
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union,
Local #2907„ A. F. of L., has been designated and selected by a
majority of the production and maintenance employees and watchmen
in the Weed manufacturing plant of the Company, including sawmill,
pond, planing mill, box factory, sash and door factory, treating plant,
veneer plant and yard and dry kiln employees, exclusive of super-
visory, clerical and student employees and club, store and hotel
employees as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining, and that pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (b) of the
Act, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local #2907, A. F. of L..
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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