Reynolds Metals Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 27, 1950

89 N.L.R.B. 802 (N.L.R.B. 1950)

In the Matter Of REYNOLDS METALS COMPANY, EMPLOYER and DISTRICT
COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS OF PORTLAND AND VICINITY, UNITED
BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA, AFL,
PETITIONER
Case No. 36-RC-374.-Decided April X7,1950
DECISION
AND
ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a hearing was held before Robert J. Wiener, 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 Act, the Board
has delegated its power in connection with this case to a three-member
panel [Members Reynolds, Murdock, and Styles].
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 :
The Petitioner seeks to sever a unit of all carpenters from an exist-
ing unit of production and maintenance employees currently repre-
sented by the United Steelworkers of America, Local 330, CIO, herein
called the Intervenor.' The Intervenor does not dispute their status
as craftsmen, but contends that the unit sought is inappropriate on
the ground that the duties performed by the carpenters are an inte-
grated part of the production work carried on at the Employer's plant.
The Employer took no position with respect to this issue.
1 An existing contract between the Employer and the Intervenor is not urged as a bar to
this proceeding by any of the parties.
89 NLRB No. 113.
802
REYNOLDS METALS COMPANY 803
The Employer operates an aluminum reduction plant at Troutdale,
Oregon, the only plant involved in this proceeding. The carpenters
perform the usual duties of their craft, which include the construc-
tion and maintenance of guards for the safety of workers in the plant
and the making and repairing of wooden portions of tools used in the
production operations. Although the group of employees whom the
Petitioner seeks to represent may be a craft, in view of the character
of the industry involved herein, we are of the opinion that, for the
reasons set forth in our recent Permanente Metals decision,2 they
should not be severed from the existing plant-wide unit. As the bar-
gaining unit sought to be established by the Petitioner is inappro-
priate for collective bargaining purposes, we shall therefore order
that the petition be dismissed.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition filed by District Council of
Carpenters of Portland and Vicinity, United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners of America, AFL, be, and it hereby is, dismissed.
2 The Permanente Metals Corporation, 89 NLRB 804, overruling Reynolds Metals Com-
pany, 85 NLRB 110.
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