The Western Union Telegraph Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 28, 1942

40 N.L.R.B. 961 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of TIIE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY and
AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION , C. I. O.
Case No. R-3578
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 28, 194.
On March 24, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued
a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
ings.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on April 10, 1942, under the direction and super-
vision of the Regional Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minne-
apolis, Minnesota). On April 13, 1942, 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 on the ballot. 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___________________________________ - 65
Total ballots cast________________________________________ 62
Total ballots challenged__________________________________ 4
Total blank ballots_______________________________________ None
Total void ballots________________________________________ None
Total valid votes counted_________________________________ 58
Votes cast for American Communications Association, C. I. O__ 32
Votes cast for Commercial Telegraphers' Union, Local 65____ 26
Votes cast for neither organization________________________ None
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 American Communications Association,
affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been
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designated and selected by a majority of all employees at the Duluth,
Minnesota, offices of The Western Union Telegraph Company,.in-
eluding employees at Superior; Wisconsin, under the jurisdiction of
the superintendent at Duluth, regular full-time and regular part-time
messengers, assistant automatic chief, Henry Berglund, Edmund
Gandsey, and Tillie*Novland, but excluding the superintendent, man-
ager of delivery department, cashier, chief operator, early night
chief operator, late night chief operator, messengers engaged exclu-
sively in distribution service, automatic supervisor, chief commercial
representative, Isabell Polski, and James Brooks, as their representa-
tive for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant
to Section 9 (a) of the Act, American Communications Association.
affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclu-
sive 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.