New Idea, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 12, 1941

30 N.L.R.B. 1154 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of N FW I DIE, INC. and METAL TRADES DEPARTMENT,
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. R-2444.-Decided April 12, 1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon
,
consent election.
Mr:,Stephen M. Reynolds, for the Board.
.Messrs. Pope c Ballard, of Chicago, Ill., for the Company.
Mr. A. J. Eberhardy, of Chicago, Ill., for the M. T..D.
,Mr. Erwin J. LaBonhe, for the F. I. W. U.
111r. Sidney L. Davis, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF TILE CASE
On February 24, 1941, Metal Trades Department, American Fed-
eration of Labor, herein called the M. T. D., filed with the Regional
Director for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois), a petition
alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the
representation of employees at the Sandwich plant of New Idea, Inc.,
herein called the Company, engaged in the manufacture and assembly
of farm equipment at Sandwich, Illinois, and requesting an investlga-
- tion and certification of representatives, pursuant to Section 9 (c)
of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the
Act., On March 6,'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 au-
thorized the Regional Director to conduct it and to provide for an
appropriate hearing upon due notice. On March 7, 1941, the Com-
pany, the M. T. D., Farm Implements Workers Union, herein called
the F. I W. U., and the attorney for the Board, entered into a "Stipu-
lation for Certification Upon Consent Election."
Pursuant to the stipulation, an election by secret ballot was conducted
on March 14, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Acting
Regional Director, among all factory employees of the Company at its
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Sandwich plant, excluding straight clerical, office, and supervisory
employees, to determine whether said employees desired to be rep-
resented by the M. T. D. or the F. I. W. U., or by neither. On March
18, 1941, the Acting Regional Director issued and duly served upon the
parties an 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 the Election Report, 'the Acting Regional Director reported as
follows concerning the balloting and its results :
Total number on eligible list------------------------- --- ------------- 247
Total number of ballots cast -------------- ------ -- ------ ------ 244
Total number of ballots cast for the "F. I W. U "_____________ 123
Total number of ballots cast for the "A F. of L" (M. T. D)---- 112
Total number of ballots cast for neither________________'------------------------ 1
Total number of ballots challenged--------------------------- 8
Total number of blank ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots ------------------------- - ------ 0
Since the eight challenged ballots could not affect the results of the
election, the Acting Regional Director did not report or make any
recommendations on said challenged ballots.
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 represen-
tation of employees at the Sandwich plant of New Idea, Inc., Sandwich,
Illinois, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and
(7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All factory employees of the Company at its Sandwich plant,
excluding straight 'clerical, office, and supervisory employees, con-
stitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining,
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations
Act.
3. Farm Implements Workers Union has been designated and se-
lected by a majority of the employees in the above unit as their repre-
sentative 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'pursuapt to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
IT Is IiFREBY CERTIFIED that Farm Implements Workers Union has
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been designated and selected by a majority of all factory employees of
New Idea, Inc., at its Sandwich plant, Sandwich, Illinois, excluding
straight clerical, office, and supervisory employees, as their representa-
tive for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to
Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Farm Implements
Workers Union is the exclusive representative of all such employees
for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay,
wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.