The Wadsworth Watch Case Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 17, 1940

22 N.L.R.B. 1010 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter.of-THE WADSWORTH,WATCH CASE COMPANY; and INTER-
NATIONAL ASSN. of MACHINISTS, DIs!rmoT $k'34
Case No. R-1695
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 17, 1940
On March 11, 1940, 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 March 29, 1940, under
the direction and supervision of the 'Regional Director, for the Ninth
Region (Cincinnati, Ohio). On April 3, 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 hereto 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 :
Number of alleged eligible voters___________________________ 3,52
Number of ballots placed in ballot box _____________________ 339
Number of unchallenged ballots for The Wadsworth Watch
Case Company Workers Alliance_________________________ 173
Number of unchallenged ballots for International Association
of Machinists, District #34 (A. F. of L.) ----------------- 119
Number of unchallenged ballots for Neither________________ 12
Number of challenged ballots______________________________ 34
Number of blank ballots___________________________________ 1
Number of spoiled ballots --------------------------------- 0
The Regional Director made no recommendations on the challenged
ballots, since they could not affect the result of the election.
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,
121N L.R.B 476.
22 N L. R B, No. 79.
1010
THE WADSWORTH WATCH CASE COMPANY 1011
IT IS HEREBY C RTiFIED that The Wadsworth Watch Case Company
Workers Alliance has been designated and selected by a majority of
all employees of The Wadsworth Watch Case Company, exclusive of
officers of the Company, persons having the right to employ or dis-
charge'-employees; those holding, purely supervisory positions, -those
engaged in the Time Study Department, those engaged in the Cost
Department, those engaged in clerical work in the general offices of
the Company (except those engaged in clerical work in production
departments of the Company), and all employees engaged in metal
polishing, buffing, plating and the processes related thereto, as their
representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and that,
pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, The
Wadsworth Watch Case Company Workers Alliance 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.