Union Carbide and Carbon Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 2, 1943

47 N.L.R.B. 1276 (N.L.R.B. 1943)

In the Matter of UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON CORPORATION, UNION
CARBIDE DIVISION and DISTRICT 50, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA
Case No. R-4660.-Decided March 0, 1943
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
On January 14, 1943, 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 February 4, 1943, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Twelfth
Region (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). On February 12,1943, the Regional
Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 10, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
(and duly served upon the parties a Report on Ordered Election. No
objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Report on Ordered
Election have been filed by any of the parties.,
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Approximate number of eligible voters________________________ 13
Total number of ballots cast ---------------------------------- 14
Total number of ballots challenged___________________________ 1
Total number of void ballots________________________________ 0
Total number of valid votes counted_________________________ 13
Votes cast for District 50, United Mine Workers of America_____ 13
Votes cast against District 50, United Mine Workers of America- 0
In its Decision, the Board found that the storeroom clerk was in-
cluded in the bargaining unit covered by a collective bargaining con-
tract, and excluded him from the present unit. Thereafter, however,
the parties advised the Regional Director that the storeroom clerk
was not included in the collective bargaining contract unit. He was
permitted to 'vote subject to challenge, and the Regional Director
has recommended that he be included in the present unit. Since it
appears that the storeroom clerk was not included in the bargaining
unit covered by a collective bargaining contract, and since he is engaged
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in duties similar to those of the employees in the unit found appro-
priate by the Board we shall include him in the present unit. His
ballot does not affect the results of the election.
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 9 and 10, of National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that District 50, United Mine Workers of
America has been designated and selected by a majority of all time-
keepers, production clerks, the storeroom clerk, and gatemen, of Union
Carbide and Carbon Corporation, Union Carbide Division, Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan, excluding the assistant storekeeper, the' storeroom
attendant, and supervisory and main office employees, as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant
to Section 9 (a) of the Act, District 50, United Mine Workers of
America is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the
purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages,
hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.
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