Pidgeon Thomas Iron Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 6, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 1151 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of PIDGEON THOMAS IRON COMPANY and STEEI, WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, C. I. O.
Case No. R-2499
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 6, 1941
On June 5, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled proceeding., Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an
election by secret ballot was conducted on July 2, 1941, under the
direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Tenth
Region (Atlanta, Georgia). On July 8, 1941, the Regional Director,
acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly
served upon the parties an Election Report on the ballot.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total on eligibility list---------------------------------- 74
Total number of ballots cast---------------------------- 72
Total number cast for International Association of Bridge,
Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Shopmen's Local
Iron Workers No. 530, A. F. of L------------------------ 31
Total number cast for Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
C. I. 0------------------------------------------------ 37
Total number cast for neither---------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots----------------------- 4
Total number of void ballots----------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots. ---------------------------- 0
On July 12 and July 14, 1941, the International Association of
Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Shopmen's Local
Iron Workers No. 530, A. F. of L., filed its Objections to Conduct of
the Ballot and Election Report. On July 23, 1941, the Regional
Director issued a Report On Objections. We have considered the
objections and the Regional Director's Report thereon and find that
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the objections raise no substantial or material issues with respect to
to the conduct of the ballot.2 The objections are hereby overruled.
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant 'to Article III, Sections 8 and
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
C. I. 0., has been designated and selected by a majority of all em-
ployees of Pidgeon Thomas Iron Company employed at Memphis,
Tennessee, including those in the wholesale warehouse, the shop ware-
house, and the shop, the maintenance men, shopmen, shop blacksmith,
night watchmen, truck drivers, and the office porters, but excluding
supervisory, office, clerical, and sales employees, as their representative
for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section
9 (a) of the Act, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, C. I. 0., is
the ekclusive 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.
2 The Objections also state that the superintendents , foremen, and shipping clerks should
have been included in the appropriate unit because these men spend all of their time in
production work. The Board weighed the evidence and disposed of this issue in the original
Decision and Direction of Election on June 5, 1941.