The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 14, 1954

108 N.L.R.B. 862 (N.L.R.B. 1954)

862 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF NEVADA and ORDER OF
REPEATERMEN AND TOLL TESTBOARDMEN, INDE-
PENDENT, Petitioner. Case No. 20-RC-2251. May 14, 1954
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
On March 17, 1954, the Boardissuedits Decision and Order 1
in the above-entitled proceeding, dismissing the petition here-
tofore filed herein. In its petition, the Petitioner requested that
the Board consolidate into a systemwide unit, covering the
Employer's several operating areas, toll maintenance employ-
ees of the plant department, for whom it was currently rec-
ognized as the bargaining representative in three separate
bargaining units pursuant to Board certifications. The Petitioner
also requested the inclusion within the systemwide unit of
other categories of employees not heretofore included within
the smaller units as previously certified.
The Petitioner was certified by the Board for separate geo-
graphical units of toll maintenance employees,2 and at the time
the instant petition was filed the Petitioner was the certified
collective -bargaining representative in each of three such units.
In dismissing the petition, the Board found, for the reasons
stated in its said Decision and Order issued March 17, 1954,
that the systemwide unit as sought in the petition was inappro-
priate, and accordingly denied the Petitioner's request for an
election in such consolidated systemwide unit. In doing so, the
Board did not expre s sly pass on the existing bargaining relation-
ship between the Petitioner and the Employer , or on the pos-
sible effect that its decision might have on the existing certifi-
cations which embrace the three separate bargaining units
represented by the Petitioner.
In order to remove any doubt as to the effect of the Board's
decision of March 17, 1954, in the respects noted above, the
Board now issues this Supplemental Decision.
The Board wishes to make it clear that by dismissing the
Petitioner's petition it did not by this action intend to pass upon
the validity of the existing certifications, previously issued by
the Board to the Petitioner as collective-bargaining representa-
tive in the three existing separate units of toll maintenance
employees, or adjudicated any of the rights and obligations that
flow therefrom.
1 The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and Bell Telephone Company, 107 NLRB
1615.
z 23 NLRB 280 (1940); 58 NLRB 1042 (1944); and 85 NLRB 713 (1949).
108 NLRB No. 124.