Seattle Post-Intelligencer Department of Hearst Publications, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jan 28, 1939

10 N.L.R.B. 1468 (N.L.R.B. 1939)

In the Matter of SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER DEPARTMENT OF HEARST
PUBLICATIONS, INC. and SEATTLE NEWSPAPER GUILD, LOCAL No. 82
Case No. R-765
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 28, 1939
On November 29, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board,
herein called the Board, issued a Decision, Certification of Repre-
sentatives and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
ing.) The Direction of Election provided that an election by secret
ballot be conducted within thirty (30) days from the date of the
Direction among the employees of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer De-
partment of Hearst Publications, Inc., a corporation , employed on
March 5, 1938 in the editorial , classified advertising, display adver-
tising, promotion , circulation , and purchasing departments, the
business office , and the outside telephone crew, but excluding Home
Edition District Men Helpers-Seattle; District Man-Tacoma;
Branchmen ; Branchmen'sHelpers ; Street Circulators-Seattle; Street
Circulators-Portland ; Roadmen; the following assistants to the Cir-
culation Manager, namely, Branch Manager, Canvasser Manager,
and Country and Suburban Circulator; Traffic Clerks; Return
Clerks ; Canvassers-City ; Canvassers-Outside City ; and Motor
Route Drivers, and excluding any of the foregoing who have since
quit or been discharged for cause, and excluding also all executives
and department managers but including all other supervisors, to
determine whether or not they desire to be represented by Seattle
Newspaper Guild, Local No. 82, for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining. The Direction provided also that a separate secret ballot
be taken of Ruby Givan, Helen Hoover, and Ray Griffith with
respect to whom charges of unfair labor practices had been filed,
and their ballots be segregated pending the disposition of the issues
raised by these charges.
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
was conducted on December 13, 1938 under the direction and super-
vision of the Regional Director for the Nineteenth Region ( Seattle,
Washington). Full opportunity was accorded to all of the parties
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to this investigation to participate therein and to make challenges.
On December 22, 1938, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to
Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules. and
Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued and duly served upon the
parties an Intermediate Report on the election. No objections or
exceptions to the Intermediate Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number of eligible voters---------------------------------- 197
Total number of ballots cast------------------------------------- 192
Total number of votes cast for Seattle Newspaper Guild, Local
No. 82-------------------------------------------------------- 145
Total number of votes cast against Seattle Newspaper Guild, Local
No 82-------------------------------------------------------- 47
Total number of blank ballots----------------------------------- 0
Total number of special ballots--------------------------------- 3
Total number of void ballots------------------------------------ 0
Total number of challenged votes-------------------------------- 0
Total number of eligible voters not voting----------------------- 5
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 1,
as amended,
IT IS HEREBY OERTIFIED that Seattle Newspaper Guild, Local No. 82,
has been selected by a majority of the employees of the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer Department of Hearst Publications, Inc., a corporation,
employed in the editorial, classified advertising, display advertising,
promotion, circulation, and purchasing departments, the business
office and the outside telephone crew, but excluding Home Edition
District Men Helpers-Seattle ; District Man-Tacoma ; Branchmen ;
Branchmen's Helpers; Street Circulators-Seattle; Street Circula-
tors-Portland; Roadmen; the following assistants to the Circula-
tion Manager, namely, Branch Manager, Canvasser Manager, and
Country and Suburban Circulator; Traffic Clerks; Return Clerks;
Canvassers-City ; Canvassers-Outside City ; and Motor Route
Drivers, and excluding also all executives and department managers
but including all other supervisors, as their representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9
(a) of the Act, Seattle Newspaper Guild, Local No. 82, is the exclu-
sive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collec-
tive bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employ-
ment and other conditions of employment.