The Griess Pfleger Tanning Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 20, 1941

30 N.L.R.B. 478 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of THE GRIEss PFLEGER TANNING Co . and INTERNATIONAL
FUR AND LEATHER WORKERS UNION, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. 1: O.
Case No. R-2314
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 00, 1941
On February 20, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an
election by secret ballot was conducted on February 28, 1941, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Thir-
teenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On March 1, 1941, the Regional
Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
and duly served upon the parties an Election Report on the ballot.
No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have
been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total on eligibility list-------------------------------------- 585
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 561
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 2
Total blank ballots----------------------------------------- 0
Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 3
Total valid ballots------------------------------------------- 556
Votes cast for Leather Workers Union Local 245, affiliated with
the C. I. 0------------------------------------------------ 513
Votes cast against Leather Workers Union Local 245, affiliated
with the C. I. 0------------------------------------------ 43
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
2, as amended,
IT Is HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Fur and Leather Workers
Union, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has
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been designated and selected by a majority of all production and
maintenance employees at the Waukegan plant of The Griess Pfleger
Tanning Co., Waukegan,, Illinois, including employees in the hide
house, beam house, tan house, shaving department, back yard, -lime
splitting, chrome splitting, setting and shanking, color and fat liquor,
hand setting, tack and trim, fourth floor finishing, staking and buff-
ing, third floor finishing, buffing, sorting and wrapping, and shipping
departments, yard gang, machine shop, powerhouse, elevator operators,
and janitor, but excluding D. Milakovich, strawboss, S. Sundstrom,
assistant foreman, laboratory employees, office employees, foremen,
assistant foremen, supervisors, and clerical employees, as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant
to'Section 9 (a) of the Act, International Fur and Leather Workers
Union, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is
the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes-of
collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of em-
ployment, and other conditions of employment.
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