The Connecticut Bank and Trust Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 5, 1955

114 N.L.R.B. 1293 (N.L.R.B. 1955)

THE CONNECTICUT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY 1293
guards, professional employees, technical employees, and supervisors
as defined in the Act.
(2) All laboratory employees, at the Employer's Gypsum, Ohio,
plant excluding supervisors as defined in the Act, and all other em-
ployees.
[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication.]
Mw'rBERs MuiDocK and BEAN took no part in the consideration of
the above Decision and Direction of Elections.
The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company and Building Service
Employees International Union , AFL, Petitioner. Case No.
1-RC-4219. December 5,1955 - -
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National
-Labor Relations Act a hearing was held before William I. Shooer,
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 Leedom and Members
Peterson and Rodgers].
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 organization named below claims to represent certain
employees of the Employer.
3. A -question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa-
tion of certain employees of the Employer, within the meaning of Sec-
tion 9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
4. The following employees of the Employer constitute a unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the mean-
1 Although the Employer does not contest jurisdiction herein, it seeks a Board determina-
tion of the question The Employer is a Connecticut corporation engaged in general
-commercial banking business . It has 21 branch banks in Connecticut with total deposits
in excess of $300 , 000,000. The annual volume of checks sent by it to out-of-State banks
for collection exceeds $15 ,000,000 in value. As it appears that the Employer has direct
-outflow in excess of $50,000 annually, we find that it is engaged in commerce within the
meaning of the Act. Jonesboro Grain Drying Cooperative, 110 NLRB 481, 483; American
National Insurance Company, 111 NLRB 340. The Employer's main place of business
is located in the 17-story office building involved herein The Employer occupies approxi-
mately 55 percent of the total usable space in the building in conducting its banking
activities. As the office building involved in this case is owned and operated primarily
for the use in its own operations by the Employer which itself is engaged in interstate
commerce, we find that it will effectuate the policies of the Act to assert jurisdiction
herein. Cf. McKinney Avenue Realty Company, 110 NLRB 547, 549.
114 NLRB No. 200.
1294 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ing of Section 9 (b) of the Act: 2 All janitors, elevator operators, and
maintenance employees employed at the Employer's office building
located at 750-760 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut, but excluding
guards, watchmen, and supervisors as defined in the Act.
[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication.]
9 The unit appears as stipulated by the parties.
Cab Service & Parts Corporation and District #15, Inter-
national Association of Machinists , AFL, and Local 917,
International Brotherhood of Teamsters , AFL, Joint Peti-
tioners. Case No. 2-RC-7815. December 5,1955
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National
Labor Relations Act a hearing was held before Arthur Goldberg,.
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 Leedom and Members
Peterson and Rodgers].
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 organization named below claims to represent certain
employees of the Employer 2
3. A question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa-
tion of certain employees of the Employer, within the meaning of
Section 9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
4. The following employees of the Employer constitute a unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning
of Section 9 (b) of the Act: 3
All employees employed at the Employer's New York, New York,
taxicab maintenance and parts plant as automotive maintenance and
, Because the Employer 's operations concededly satisfy the Board's current standards
for asserting jurisdiction, we find no merit in the Employer 's contention that the Board
should refuse to assert jurisdiction inasmuch as the Employer is affiliated with a local
taxicab company over whose operations the Board has heretofore refused to assert
jurisdiction
2 We find no merit in the Employer's contention that the authorization cards used for
the Petitioners ' showing of interest were made out not to the Petitioners but to the Joint
Organizing Committee for the Automotive Industry , AFL. The cards unequivocally state
that the Committee acts on behalf of the Petitioners . We have previously held such
designation of an agent or parent organization a valid designation to an affiliate. Cf.
General Shoe Corporation, 113 NLRB 905.
3 The unit appears substantially as stipulated by the parties at the hearing.
114 NLRB No. 211.