Pacific Trailways

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 28, 1950

91 N.L.R.B. 559 (N.L.R.B. 1950)

In the Matter of MT. HOOD STAGES , INC., D/B/A PACIFIC TRAILWAYS,
EMPLOYER and MT. HOOD LODGE # 1005, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF MACHINISTS , PETITIONER and MISCELLANEOUS DRIVERS UNION,
LOCAL No. 223, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS , CHAUF-
FEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA , AFL, PETITIONER
Cases Nos. 36-RC-398 and 36-RC-468.-Decided September 28, 1950
DECISION AND ORDER
Upon petitions duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a hearing was held before Lincoln Klaver, hearing
officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free
from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the Act.
2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent employees
of the Employer.
3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa-
tion of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section 9
(c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act, for the following
reasons:
The respective Petitioners seek to represent separate units, in one
case (36-RC-398) of all maintenance employees, and in the other
(36-RC-458) of all bus drivers. The Intervenor, Division 1055,
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees of America, AFL, contends that, because of a bar-
gaining history on an over-all basis since 1936, only a unit of both
drivers and maintenance employees is appropriate. The Employer is
neutral.
. The Employer. operates a common carrier bus line over routes in
Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. It has about 60 employees, of whom ap-
proximately 40 drive busses and the remainder, consisting of mechan-
ics, washers, greasers, cleaners, and other maintenance personnel,
maintain the busses in shops in Oregon and Idaho. Drivers do no
mechanical work except to take care of very minor difficulties that
may occur while a bus is on the road. Except in rare instances, me-
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chanics drive only to test a bus, or to take a replacement bus to the
scene of a breakdown. Drivers and maintenance employees are listed
separately for seniority purposes. However, both groups enjoy the
same vacation policy and other benefits.
In the absence of any bargaining history, the Board has found that
separate units of either bus drivers 1 or maintenance employees 2 em-
ployed by a bus transportation company may be appropriate. But
where, as here, there has been a long history of bargaining for both
groups of employees in a single unit, we do not believe it appropriate
that the single unit be split into two separate units .3 Accordingly, we
shall dismiss the present petitions.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petitions filed herein be, and they here-
by are, dismissed.
MEMBER REYNOLDS took no part in the consideration of the above
Decision and Order.
I Tennessee Coach Co ., 88 NLRB 253 ; Gate City Transit Lines , 81 NLRB 79.
2 See Gulf Oil Corporation, 79 NLRB 1274 ; Illini Coach Company, 72 NLRB 408.
8 The Wichita Transportation Corporation , 90 NLRB No . 70 ; Lincoln Transit Co., Inc., 47
NLRB 1325.