Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 7, 1945

64 N.L.R.B. 748 (N.L.R.B. 1945)

In the Matter Of MINNESOTA MINING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY
and MINNESOTA MINING EMPLOYEES INDEPENDENT UNION
Case No. 18-R-979
THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
AMENDED CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 7, 1945
On July 20, 1944, the National Labor Relations Board issued a De-
cision, Direction of Election, and Order 1 in the above-entitled pro-
ceeding; on April 23, 1945, a Supplemental Decision, Order Setting
Aside Election and Direction of Second Run-Off Election; 2 and on
June 2, 1945, a Second Supplemental Decision and Certification of
Representatives, in which the Board certified Minnesota Mining Em-
ployees Independent Union, herein called the Independent, as the
exclusive bargaining representative of employees of Minnesota Min-
ing & Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, herein called
the Company, in a unit previously found appropriate for bargaining.
The appropriate unit covered production and maintenance employees
at the Company's St. Paul plant, including, not expressly but by im-
plication, all journeymen electricians and helpers doing electrical
maintenance and electrical construction work within the confines of
the plant property. On October 22, 1945, International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, Local No. 110, A. F. L., herein called the
I. B. E. W. filed a motion in this proceeding, requesting that the Board
amend the certification noted above, by expressly excluding from the
bargaining unit covered therein the electricians above described.
In support of its motion, the I. B. E. W. exhibited letters purport-
ing to be written by the Independent and the Company, respectively,
the first indicating the consent of the Independent to the granting of
the motion filed by the I. B. E. W., and the second, indicating that
the Company was willing to recognize the I. B. E. W. when it should
be certified by the Board as representative of these electricians in a
separate bargaining unit. Since the Independent no longer desires
1 57 N. L R. B. 495.
2 61 N . L. R. B. 697.
64 N. L. R. B., No. 130.
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MINNESOTA MINING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY 749
to represent the designated electricians, and the I. B. E. W. presently
claims to represent them, we will grant the motion, and amend our
certification to exclude the electricians from the plant unit, heretofore
found appropriate.
AMENDED CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
IT IS HEREBY 'CERTIFIED that Minnesota Mining Employees Inde-
pendent Union has been designated and selected by a majority of all
production and maintenance employees at the St. Paul plant and
warehouses of Minnesota Mining L& Manufacturing Company, St.
Paul, Minnesota, including machine-shop employees and receiving-
department employees, but excluding all journeymen electricians and
helpers doing electrical maintenance and electrical construction work
within the confines of the plant property, boiler room employees,
clerical employees other than clerks in the machine-shop, office em-
ployees, watchmen, guards, leadermen, assistant foremen, and any
other supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote, dis-
charge, discipline or otherwise effect changes in the status of em-
ployees, or effectively recommend such action, as their representative
for the purposes of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Sec-
tion 9 (a) of the Act, the said organization is the exclusive bargaining
representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment,
and other conditions of employment.
MR. GERARD D. REILLY took no part in.the consideration of the
above Third Supplemental Decision and Amended Certification of
Representatives.