The Paraffine Companies, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 10, 1940

27 N.L.R.B. 197 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of THE PAR AFFINE COMPANIES, INC. and INTERNATIONAL
LONGSHOREMEN'S AND WAREHOUSEMEN'S UNION, LOCAL 1-6
Case No. B-1921
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 10, 1940
On July 22, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Elections 1 and
on August 5, 1940, its Amendment to Direction of Elections in the
above-entitled proceeding.2 Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, as
amended, an election by secret ballot was conducted on August 8, 1940,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Twentieth Region (San Francisco, California). On August 12, 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 an 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 number of eligible voters------------------------------- 214
Number of votes for International Longshoremen's Union, Local
1-6,,C. I 0----------------------------------------------- 169
Number of votes for International Brotherhood of Paper Makers,
Bay Bridge Local 334, A. F. of L------------------- -------- 38
Number of votes for neither--------------------------------- 0
Total number of votes counted------------------------------- 207
There were no blank, void or challenged ballots.
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, Sections 8 and 9 of National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Longshoremen's and Ware-
housemen's Union, Local 1-6, has been designated and selected by a,
majority of the production employees of Paraffine Companies, Inc.,
1 25 N. L R . B. 752.
226 N. L . R. B 132.
27 N. L. R. B., No. 43
197
198 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
in the Felt Mill and Roofing. Department, including the slate depart-
ment, machine operations, wrapping, capping, sample, and tape-room
-work in the roofing department, and including the machine room, felt
storage, re-winding, and rag- and beater-room work in the felt mill,
and such maintenance employees whose duties are confined-exclusively
to the felt mill, but excluding maintenance employees who work in
departments other that the felt mill, and clerical and actual super-
visory employees with the rank of supervisory foreman or above, as
their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that,
pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Inter-
national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 1-6, is
the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of
collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of em-
ployment, and other conditions of employment.