The Cudahy Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Feb 10, 1940

20 N.L.R.B. 324 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

I n the Matter of THE CUDAHY PACKING CoMPANY and UNITED
PACKING HOUSE WORKERS , LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION No. 194
Cases Nos. C-660 and R-°?08
SUPPLEMENTAL DIRECTION OF ELECTION
February 10; 191,0
On November 4, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board , herein
called the Board , issued a Decision , Order, and Direction of Election
in the above-entitled proceedings .' On November 16, 1939, the Board
issued an Order and Amendment to Direction of Election.2 The
Direction of Election , as amended , directed that an election by secret
ballot be conducted at such time as the Board should in the future
direct, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City , Missouri ), to determine
whether the employees in the unit found by the Board to be ap-
propriate , desire to be represented for the purposes of collective
bargaining by United Packing House Workers of America, Local
Union No. 10, of the Packing House Workers Organizing Committee,
affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or by
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America, Local 574, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,
or by neither. The Board has since been advised by the Regional
Director that an election may be appropriately held at this time.
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act; 49 Stat . 449, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series2,
as amended , it is hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation authorized by the
Board to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective
bargaining with The Cudahy Packing Company, Kansas City,
Kansas, an election by secret ballot shall be conducted as early as
possible but not later than thirty ( 30) days from the date of this
Supplemental Direction of Election , under the direction and super-
117 N. L . R. B. 302.
17 N. L. R. B. 350.
20 N. L. R. B., No. 33.
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THE CUDAHY PA'CKIN'G CODIPAKY 325
vision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region, acting
in this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and
subject to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules and Regulations,
among all production and maintenance employees of The Cudahy
Packing Company at its Kansas City, Kansas, plant employed during
the pay-roll period next preceding the date of this Supplemental
Direction of Election, including employees who did not work during
such pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation and em-
ployees who were then or have since been temporarily laid off, but
excluding foremen, assistant foremen, strawbosses, foreladies, and
also excluding those employees who have since quit or been dis-
charged for cause, to deter pine whether they desire to be represented
by United Packing House Workers of America, Local Union No. 10,
of the Packing House Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated
with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or by Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 574,
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, or by neither.
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