Robinson Printers, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 5, 1957

118 N.L.R.B. 518 (N.L.R.B. 1957)

518 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
APPENDIX B
NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES
Pursuant to the recommendations of a Trial Examiner of the National Labor
Relations Board, and in order to effectuate the policies of the Labor Management
Relations Act, we hereby notify our employees that:
WE WILL NOT interrogate our employees concerning their voting intentions
or concerning their conversations with union representatives or threaten
employees with discharge because of the latter; threaten employees with surveil-
lance in the voting booths; threaten employees that if the Union wins the
election we will revoke existing benefits and privileges or that we will shut down
the plant and lay off the employees; promise wage increases or other benefits if
the Union is defeated in the election; and we will not engage in surveillance
either of union activities or of employees during the course of the Board's
official investigations.
WE WILL NOT in any like or related manner interfere with, restrain, or coerce
our employees in the exercise of their rights to self-organization, to form labor
organizations, to join or assist Lodge 1243, International Association of
Machinists, AFL-CIO, or any other labor organization, to bargain collectively
through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted
activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and
protection, or to refrain from any or all such activities except to the extent that
such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor
organization as a condition of employment as authorized in Section 8 (a) (3)
of the Act.
"M" SYSTEM, INC., MOBILE HOME
DIVISION, MID-STATE CORPORATION,
Employer.
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This notice must remain posted for 60 days from the date hereof, and must not be
altered, defaced, or covered by any other material.
Robinson Printers , Inc. and Amalgamated Lithographers of
America,' AFL-CIO, Local #74 and International Printing
Pressmen 2 & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO,
Petitioners. Cases Nos. .l RC-84 and 120-RC-98. July 5,1957
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
Upon petitions duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a consolidated hearing was held before M. E. Stadler,
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 powers in connection with this case to a three-
member panel [Members Rodgers, Bean, and Jenkins].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of
the Act.
i Herein called Amalgamated.
$ Herein called Printing Pressmen.
118 NLRB No. 60.
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2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent certain
employees of the Employer.
3. A 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.
4. The appropriate units :
The Employer, a Florida corporation, is engaged in commercial
printing, including both letterpress and lithography. Its operations
are located in Apopka, Orlando, and Tallahassee, Florida. Only the
operations at Apopka and Orlando are involved in this proceeding.
The Amalgamated seeks to represent the lithographic employees at
the Orlando operation. The Printing Pressmen seek to represent a
unit of both lithographic employees at Orlando and letterpress em-
ployees at Apopka. The Employer did not attend the hearing and
therefore took no position with respect to the unit contentions of the
petitioning unions.
The Employer's Orlando operation is devoted solely to lithographic
(offset) printing. The employees therein perform all phases of the
standard lithographic process, using standard offset and lithographic
equipment. The employees at Apopka are engaged in a typical letter-
press operation, and do not perform any phases of lithographic print-
ing. There is no interchange among the employees at Orlando and
Apopka, and each group is separately supervised. There is, however,
a certain integration of production processes, in that printed matter
from Orlando is trucked to Apopka for perforating, cutting, and
binding.
The Board has consistently held that lithographic and letterpress
employees in combination do not constitute an appropriate unit, un-
less there is regular interchange between them. As there is no inter-
change between the lithographic employees at Orlando and the
letterpress employees at Apopka, we find that a combined unit of
these employees is inappropriate.' However, as the employees in the
two operations are separately located and separately supervised, per-
form different functions, and comprise separate homogeneous groups,
which are accorded separate representation by the Board, we find
that they may constitute separate bargaining units.4
Accordingly, we find that the following employees of the Employer
constitute appropriate units for the purpose of collective bargaining
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the Act:
A. All lithographic (offset) employees, employed by the Employer
at its plant in Orlando, Florida, excluding all other employees and
all supervisors as defined in the Act.
a cQuiddy Printing Company, 116 NLRB 1114.
4 McQuiddy Printing Company, supra; Harvey Paper Products Company, 116 NLRB
1624, 1626.
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B. All letterpress employees employed by the Employer at its plant
in Apopka, Florida, excluding all other employees and all super-
visors 5 as defined in the Act.
5. As the Amalgamated made no showing of interest among the
letterpress employees at Apopka, we shall not place the Amalgamated
on the ballot for this unit.
[Text of Direction of Elections omitted from publication.]
5 The Printing Pressmen contend that one John Hill , classified as a foreman , should be
included in the unit. The record reflects that this individual spends approximately 90
percent of his time in assigning work to other employees and laying out jobs. While he
has no authority to hire or fire employees , he does have the authority to effectively
recommend such action . Under the circumstances , we conclude that John Hill has super-
visory authority , and he therefore is excluded from the unit.
J. I. Case Company (Rock Island , Illinois) and International
Union, United Automobile , Aircraft and Agricultural Imple-
ment Workers of America, AFL-CIO
J. I. Case Company ( Bettendorf Works) and International Union,
United Automobile , Aircraft and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America , AFL-CIO, and Its Local 858. Cases Nos.
13-CA-2200 and 13-CA-0297. July 8,1957
DECISION AND ORDER
On November 26, 1956, Trial Examiner Lloyd Buchanan issued his
Intermediate Report in the above-entitled consolidated proceedings,
finding that the Respondent had engaged in and was engaging in un-
fair labor practices within the meaning of Section 8 (a) (5) and (1)
of the Act and recommending that it cease and desist therefrom and
take certain action, as set forth in the copy of the Intermediate Report
attached hereto. Thereafter, the Respondent, the General Counsel,
and the Union' filed exceptions to the Intermediate Report with
supporting briefs.
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 Leedom and Members
Murdock and Jenkins].
On January 4, 1957, Respondent moved the Board to dismiss the
complaint, contending that certain members of the International
Union's board of trustees are "officers" within the purview of Section
9 (h) of the Act but have not filed non-Communist affidavits in com-
pliance with that section. The Board has held that the trustees of
i The term "Union" refers to the International Union as the certified representative
at the Bettendorf Works, and also to its Local 806 as the certified representative at the
Rock Island plant.
118 NLRB No. 56.