The Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 1, 1940

23 N.L.R.B. 485 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of THE INGALLS SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION and METAL
. TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFFILIATED WITH A. F. OF L.
Case No. R-1738
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 1, 1940
On March 20, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election 1 in the
above-entitled proceeding. Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an
election by secret ballot was conducted on April 3, 1940, under the
direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Fifteenth
Region (New Orleans, Louisiana). On April 5, 1940, 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 his Election Report. 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------------------------------------- 715
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------ 661
Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 3
a Challenged ballots determined eligible---------------- 0
b. Challenged ballots determined not eligible------------- 0
Total blank ballots-----------------------------------------
Total void ballots------------------------------------------
Total valid votes cast--------------------------------------
Votes cast for Metal Trades Department, affiliated with
A. F. of L------------------------------------------------ 548
Votes cast against Metal Trades Department , affiliated with
A. F. of L----------------------------------------------- 110
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,
12t N L R B 789
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486 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT Is HEREBY CERTIFIED that Metal Trades Department, affiliated
with the A. F. of L., has been designated and selected by a majority
of the production and maintenance employees of The Ingalls Ship-
building Corporation at its Pascagoula, Mississippi, plant, excluding
managerial employees, supervisory employees, office clerks, instructors
in the welding school or other craft schools that may be established
by the Company, watchmen or policemen who are deputized, com-
missioned, or appointed by the City of Pascagoula, or other public
authority, instrument men, inspectors, office porters, cost-department
clerks, and checkers, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National
Labor Relations Act, Metal Trades Department, affiliated with the
A. F. of L., is the exclusive representative of all such employees for
the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.