Pioneer, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 9, 1949

86 N.L.R.B. 1316 (N.L.R.B. 1949)

In the Matter of PIONEER, INCORPORATED, EMPLOYER and AMALGAIII-
ATED LITHOGRAPI,I:ERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL No. 45, CIO, PETITIONER
Case No. 19-RC-300.-Decided November 9, 1949
DECISION
AND
ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before Patrick H.
Walker, hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the
hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the National Labor
Relations Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with
this case to a three -member panel . [Chairman Herzog and Membersin
and Gray].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the National Labor Relations 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 :
4. The Employer operates a printing plant at Tacoma , Washington,
with 25 employees , two of whom are employed in the offset lithographic
department . The Petitioner , herein called the Lithographers, seeks.
to sever the Employer's employees from a multi -employer unit of press-
room employees . Tacoma Printing Pressmen 's Union No . 44, herein
called the Printers , the Intervenor herein, contends that the existing
multi-employer unit is the only appropriate unit.' The Employer
takes no unit position.
Industrial Conference Board for the Printing Industry of Tacoma,
herein called the Printing Industry, is an employer association com-
posed of eiht Tacoma printing establishments , including the Em-in
The Printers further contends that its current contract with the Printing Industry,
executed after the filing of the original petition , and a union -authority election , held among
pressmen , including offset pressmen , in the contract unit, won by it on January 11, 1949,
operate as bars. In view of our decision herein. we find it unnecessary to resolve these
issues.
86 N. L. R. B., No. 150.
1316
PIONEER, INCORPORATED 1317
ployer. Since February 1946 the Printers has executed three successive
collective bargaining agreements, covering pressroom employees of
the Printing Industry. The latest agreement, currently in effect, was
executed on July 1, 1949, and is terminable on January 31, 1950. The
record shows that at least two employer-members of the Printing
Industry, in addition to the Employer, perform offset printing work.
It is well established, that a severance of employees, for separate
bargaining purposes, from an existing unit already established and
functioning through a history of collective bargaining, must be coex-
tensive with the existing unit.2 In the instant case, the Lithographers
does not seek to represent any lithographic employees other than those
at this one Employer's plant. We shall therefore dismiss the petition.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby
is, dismissed.
2 Matter of Ethyl Corporation, 84 N. L. It. B. 662; Matter of Robert Gair Company, 77
N. L. It. B. 649; Matter of Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, 77 N. L. It. B. 570, and cases
cited therein.
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