Mid-South Packers, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 22, 1955

113 N.L.R.B. 910 (N.L.R.B. 1955)

910 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Mid-South Packers, Inc. and Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL, and International
Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and
Helpers of America , Local Union 591, AFL, Joint-Petitioners.
Case No. 32-RC-763. August 22, 1955
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION, DIRECTION, AND
ORDER
Pursuant to a Supplemental Decision, Order, and Second Direction
of Election 1 dated October 28, 1954, an election by secret ballot was
conducted in this proceeding on November 23, 1954, under the direc-
tion and supervision of the Regional Director for the Fifteenth Re-
gion, among employees in the unit found appropriate by the Board.
Following the election, a tally of ballots was furnished the parties.
The tally shows that of the 145 votes cast in the election, 66 were for,
and 64 votes were against, the Joint-Petitioners, with 15 votes being
challenged.
On November 29, 1954, the Joint-Petitioners filed timely objections
to conduct affecting the results of the election. The Regional Director
thereupon investigated the objections and challenges. On May 27,
1955, the Regional Director issued and duly served upon the parties
a report on challenged ballots and objections. As to the challenges,
the Regional Director recommended that the challenges to the votes
of 9 employees, i. e., Owens, Parker, Price, Wade, Robinson, Nanney,
Christopher, Helms, and Murrell be overruled; and that the challenges
to the votes of 6 employees, i. e., Black, Barksdale, Mercer, Kingsley,
Terrell, and Carson be sustained. The Regional Director also recom-
mended that the nine ballots, as to which he had recommended that the
challenges be overruled, be counted; and, if a revised tally of ballots
shows that the Joint-Petitioners have received a majority of the votes,
that a certification of representatives be accordingly issued. Finding
that the Employer's preelection conduct interfered with the election,
the Regional Director further recommended that if such revised tally
indicates that a majority of the ballots has not been cast for the Joint-
Petitioners, the election be set aside and a new election ordered. Within
the proper time therefor, the Employer filed exceptions to the Re-
gional Director's report.
The Employer has excepted to the Regional Director's recommenda-
tions as to the challenged ballots only insofar as the Regional Director
recommended that the challenges to the votes of employees Barksdale,
Kingsley, Terrell and Carson be sustained. No exceptions have been
filed to the Regional Director's recommendation that the challenges
1110 NLRB 628.
113 NLRB No. 95.
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to the-nine ballots, as noted, be overruled, and, accordingly, we adopt
the Regional Director's recommendation in this respect 2 Inasmuch
as the counting of these nine ballots may determine the results of the
election, we shall direct that they be opened and counted and that the
Regional Director issue a revised tally of ballots, before we proceed
with a final determination of the Regional Director's recommenda-
tions. In the event that these 9 ballots give the Joint-Petitioners a
majority of the votes cast, excepting therefrom the 2 ballots of Black
and Mercer, we shall direct that the Joint-Petitioners be certified as
the collective-bargaining representative of the employees in the unit
heretofore found appropriate. If the revised tally does not indicate
that the results of the election have been determined in the manner
noted, the Board will, upon being so advised by the Regional Director,
give further consideration to the disposition of the issues raised by the
Employer's exceptions to the Regional Director's report.
[The Board directed that the Regional Director for the Fifteenth
Region shall, within ten (10) days from the date of this Direction,
open and count the ballots of employees Owens, Parker, Price, Wade,
Robinson, Nanney, Christopher, Helms, and Murrell and serve upon
the parties a revised tally of ballots and issue a certification of rep-
resentatives.]
[The Board ordered the above-entitled matter referred to the Re-
gional Director for the Fifteenth Region for disposition.]
CHAIRMAN FARMER took no part in the consideration of the above
Second Supplemental Decision, Direction, and Order.
2 Also not excepted to was the Regional Director's recommendation that the challenges
to the votes of employees Black and Mercer be sustained , and we hereby adopt his recom-
mendation in this respect.
Scott & Scott and International Brotherhood of Bookbinders,
Local 63, AFL. Case No. 21-CA-1674. August 23, 1955
DECISION AND ORDER
On March 30, 1954, Trial Examiner Maurice M. Miller issued his
Intermediate Report in the above-entitled proceeding, finding that
Respondent had engaged in and was engaging in certain unfair labor
practices and recommending that the Respondent cease and desist
therefrom and take certain affirmative action, as set forth in the copy
of the Intermediate Report attached hereto. The Trial Examiner
found further that the Respondent had not engaged in certain other
unfair labor practices alleged in the complaint. Thereafter, the Re-
113 NLRB No. 103.