The Quartz Corporation

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 27, 2015

10-UC-121761 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 27, 2015)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
QUARTZ CORPORATION
Employer-Petitioner
and Case 10-UC-121761
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA
Union
ORDER
The Employer-Petitioner’s Request for Review of the Regional Director’s
dismissal of the petition for unit clarification raises no substantial issues warranting
reversal of the Regional Director’s action. Accordingly, dismissal of the petition is
affirmed.1
MARK GASTON PEARCE, CHAIRMAN
PHILIP A. MISCIMARRA, MEMBER
KENT Y. HIROZAWA, MEMBER
Dated, Washington, D.C., August 27, 2015.

1 In denying review, we also reject the Employer’s alternative request that the Board
conduct an election among the employees of the Altpass Road and Highway 226 plants.
The Union has disclaimed interest in representing the proposed consolidated unit, and,
contrary to the Employer’s assertion, this case does not present a determination by an
arbitrator of unit appropriateness. We are thus without statutory authority to grant the
Employer’s request that we direct an election in the unit it proposes. See Carr-Gottstein
Foods Co., 307 NLRB 1318 (1992); Southern California Water Co., 241 NLRB 771
(1979); Libbey-Owens Ford Co., 189 NLRB 869 (1971).