Union Electric Co. of Missouri

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 11, 1945

64 N.L.R.B. 39 (N.L.R.B. 1945)

In the Matter of UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY OF MISSOURI AND UNION
ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF-
'ELECTRICAL , WORKERS (A. F. OF L.)
In the Matter Of UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY OF MISSOURI AND UNION
ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY and TRI-STATE UTILITY WORKERS UNION,
AFFTLTATLD WITH UTILITY WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, CIO'
Cases Nos . 14-R-1186 and 14-R 12 ,38, respectively .Decided October-
11, 1945
Igoe, Carroll, Keefe cC Coburn , by Messrs. Robert J. Keefe and
David Y. Campbell , of St. Louis, Mo., for the Company.
Mr. J. C. McIntosh , of Chicago , Ill., and Mr.-Frank W.,Jacobs, of
St. Louis, Mo., for the IBEW.
Messrs. Robert Roessel, Raymond N. Freed, and Edward Shedlock,,
of St. Louis , Mo., for Tri - State.
Mr. William H. Thomas, of Washington , D., C., and Messrs. W. J.
Stuhr and Leo Bachinslci , of East St . Louis, Ill., for the Operating
Engineers and Local Union No. 148.
Mr. Harry F . Kline , of St. Louis, Mo., for Local Union No. 2 of the
Operating Engineers.
Mr. Joseph Clark, of St . Louis, Mo., for the Firemen.
Mr. TV. C. Riley; of St . Louis , Mo., for the Machinists.
Mr. Henry C . Kuehner, of St. Louis, Mo., for Local Union No. 2 of'
the IBEW.
Mr. Fred Olds , of East St . Louis, Ill., and Mr. Cale War field, of
Granite City , Ill., for the Chemical Workers.
Mr. Thomas M . Conway, of St. Louis, Mo., for the Boiler Makers.
Mr. Jerry Clancy , of St. Louis, Mo., for the Plumbers.
Mrs. Augusta Spaulding , of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS,
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Upon separate petitions respectively filed by International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L..), herein called the IBEW,
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and by Tri-State Utility Workers Union, affiliated with Utility
Workers Organizing Committee, CIO, herein called Tri-State, each
alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the
representation of employees of Union Electric Company of Missouri
and Union Electric Power Company, St. Louis, Missouri, herein jointly
called the Companies, the National Labor Relations Board consoli-
dated the cases and provided for an appropriate hearing upon-due
notice before Harry G. Carlson, Trial Examiner. The hearing was
held at St. Louis, Missouri, on July 9 and 10, 1945. The Companies;
the IBEW; Tri-State; International Union of Operating Engineers,
and Local Union No. 148, herein called Local Union No. 148 of the
Operating Engineers; Local Union No. 2, International Union of
Operating Engineers, herein called Local Union No. 2 of the Oper-
ating Engineers; International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers,
Local No. 6, herein called the Firemen; International Association of
Machinists, District #9, herein called the Machinists: Local Union
No. 2, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, herein called
Local Union No. 2 of the IBEW ; International Chemical Workers
Union, Local 50, herein called the Chemical Workers; International
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of
America, Local 27, herein called the Boiler Makers; and Journeymen
Plumbers Local Union 35 of the United Association, herein called
the Pluu-ibers, appeared and participated. All parties were afforded
full opportunity to be heard, to examine and cross-examine witnesses,
and to initroduce evidence bearing on the issues. The Chemical Work-
ers, Local Union No. 2 of the IBEW, and the Fireinen, for specific
causes stated, each moved to dismiss the proceedings. The Trial
Examiner did not rule on these motions. For various reasons set forth
below, the motions are denied. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at
the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
All parties were afforded opportunity to file briefs with the Board.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following :
FIN DINGS OF FACT
I. THE BUSINESS OF TILE COMPANIES
Union Electric Company of Missouri and Union Electric Power
Company, its wholly owned subsidiary, are separate entities function-
ing together as the Union Electric System, all plants and lines of
which are operated under the direction of a central load dispatching
department.
Prior to May 1945 there were four operating companies in the
Union Electric System : Union Electric Company of Missouri, Union
Electric Company of Illinois, Mississippi River Power Company, and
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Iowa Union Electric Company. In May 1945, Mississippi Power-
Company sold its Illinois and Iowa properties to Iowa Union Electric-
Company and, on May 31, Mississippi River Power Company was
merged with Union Electric Company of Missouri. On June 1, Iowa
Union Electric Company and Union Electric Comhany of Illinois were-
merged into Union Electric Company of Illinois, the name of which
was changed to Union Electric Power Company, named as one of the
employers herein. As a result of these changes, Union Electric Power
Company became the owner of the Keokuk Hydro Electric Dam and.
Power Plant, the transmission lines in Iowa and Illinois formerly
operated and owned by Mississippi Power Company, and the distribu-
tion system in Illinois and Iowa around Keokuk, formerly owned by
Iowa Union Electric Company. Union Electric Company of Mis-
souri acquired the transmission lines formerly owned by Mississippi
River Power Company, located in Missouri, and one substation.
Thus, all the physical properties of generation, transmission, and dis-
tribution of electric energy of the former companies in the Union
Electric System are now owned by Union Electric Company of'Mis-
souri and Union Electric Power Company, its subsidiary, named
jointly as the employers herein.
On April 1, 1945, Union Electric Company of Missouri took over
the properties owned and leased by Laclede Power and Light Com-
pany, herein called Laclede, consisting of the Mound Street plant in
St. Louis, Missouri, the Granite City plant, four or five substations,.
and the distribution system throughout various parts of St. Louis.
Union Electric Company of Missouri sells electric energy within
the State of Missouri, but a substantial part of the energy generated"
at its Granite City plant is transmitted into Illinois. Union Electric
Power Company sells electricity to customers in Illinois and Iowa.
All power plants operated by the Companies are connected by trans-
mission lines.
We find that, as an integrated enterprise, the Companies, and each-
of them individually, are engaged in commerce within the meaning
of the National Labor Relations Act.
II. TIIE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and its Local
Union No. 2; International Union of Operating Engineers, Local;
Union No. 148 and Local Union No. 2; International Brotherhood of
Firemen & Oilers, Local No. 6; International Association of Machin-
ists, District #9; International Chemical Workers Union, Local 50;
International Brotherhod of Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers of America, Local 27; and Journeymen Plumbers Local Union
35 of the United Association are labor organizations affiliated with
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the American Federation of Labor, admitting to membership em-
ployees of the Companies.
Tri-State Utility Workers Union is a labor organization affiliated
with Utility Workers Organizing Committee and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, admitting to membership employees of the
Companies.'
III. THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
On February 13, 1945, the IBEW asked the Companies for rec-
ognition as exclusive bargaining representative of employees engaged
in maintenance, transmission, and distribution services in a unit
described as appropriate. The Companies made no reply to this
request. On June 8, 1945, Tri-State asked the Companies for recog-
nition as exclusive bargaining representative of employees engaged
in the services above noted and employees working in the generating
plants. The Companies again made no reply. Tri-State and the
IBEW filed their petitions herein on June 7 and June 30, respec-
tively. At the hearing the Companies stated that they would rec-
ognize neither of the petitioning unions in the units respectively
claimed as appropriate unless and until it was certified by the Board.
Local Union No. 2 of the IBEW, the Machinists, and the Firemen,
recognized as-bargaining representatives by the Companies' prede-
cessors in operation at the Mound Street plant, are presently rec-
ognized by the Companies as bargaining representatives of the
employees at that plant within their respective crafts.2 The Com-
panies' recognition stems from separate. written agreements made
in March 1945 with each of these labor organizations to contract for
employees whom it represents when negotiations pending for the
transfer of this plant from the control of Laclede to the control of the
Companies, as set forth in Section I, above, should be completed.
These labor organizations, on the basis of these agreements, dropped
their pending negotiations with Laclede for new contracts. Pursu-
ant to these agreements, after the transfer of the plant facilities had
been effected, the Companies concluded separate written bargaining
contracts with the Firemen, with Local No. 2 of the IBEW, and with
the Machinists on April 5; June 11, and June 18, respectively, cov-
ering employees at the Mound Street plant. The contracts provide
that they are effective from January 1, 1945, to January 1, 1946. The
completed contract between 'the Companies and the Firemen was
1 At the time of the prior cases affecting employees of the Companies , noted below, Tri-
State was an unaffiliated organization.
2 The Companies also recognize Local Union No. 2 of the Operating Engineers as bar-
gaining representative of employees subject to its craft jurisdiction in the Moun I Street
plant. The contract covering these employees has expired and does not constitute a bar to
a determination of representatives for these employees at this time
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executed prior to the filing of the petition by Tri-State on June 7,
1945. The contracts of Local No. 2 of the IBEW and the Machin-
ists, later completed, relate back to the early agreements executed
during the transition of the control of the plant to the Union Elec-
tric System. When the extension of the Companies' operations like-
wise caused the Granite City plant to fall within their control, as set
forth in Section I, above, the Companies, as their predecessors in,
operation had done, recognized the Chemical Workers as bargaining
representative of employees at the Granite City plant. On June 11,
1945, the Chemical Workers-and the Companies concluded a written
contract covering employees in the Granite City plant, which, by its
terms, was effective from January 1, 1945, to January 1, 1946.
The contract between the Companies and the Firemen was exe-
cuted prior to the filing of the petition by Tri-State on June 7, 1945,
and under our rules, constitutes a bar to a determination of repre-
sentatives for the period of the present contract term. The separate
contracts between the Companies and Local 2 of the IBEW, the
Machinists, and the Chemical Workers were executed subsequent to
the filing of the petition by Tri-State. Although this petition clearly
names "all employees" of the Companies in the proposed bargaining
unit, the Machinists, the Chemical Workers, and Local Union No. 2
of the IBEW were not specifically named therein as labor organiza-
tions claiming to represent employees covered by the petition, and
we believe that there is %ome doubt as to whether the petition as of that
time was actually intended to refer to employees of the Companies'
Mound Street plant and Granite City plant. All the contracts urged
as a bar terminated on January 1, 1946, and have less than 3 months to
run. In view of the fact that the results of the elections herein may
result in system-wide bargaining for the Companies' employees to
supersede the plant-wide bargaining heretofore customary with Lac-
lede for the two plants recently acquired, and upon the facts set forth
above, we find that the separate contracts between the Companies and
the Firemen, the Machinists, Local Union No. 2 of the IBEW, and
the Chemical Workers do not constitute bars to a present determination
of representatives, for employees respectively concerned, to serve when
the present terms of the contracts shall have run their course.
A statement of a Field Examiner and other evidence introduced
at the hearing indicate that the participating labor organizations 8
each represents a substantial number of employees in its proposed bar-
gaining unit .4
' Neither' the Plumbers nor the Boiler Makers introduced any evidence to indicate its
interest among employees covered by the petitions filed herein in any clearly defined unit.
* The IBEW submitted the contract of its local unions covering employees in the
Companies ' Alton and East St. Louis districts . The IBEW also submitted 281 current
d,Lted authorization cards bearing the names of other employees on the Company 's pay roll
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We find that questions affecting commerce have arisen concerning
the representation of employees of the Companies, within the mean-
ing of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNITS; TILE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
A. The contentions of the parties
Sales, office, and clerical employees of the Companies are repre-
sented by Tri-State, and none of the other labor organizations pres-
ently claims to represent them.5 The Companies' production and
maintenance employees, sometimes termed "physical" employees, who
are the subject of the several claims for representation by the labor
organizations herein, fall generally into two large groups: (1) the
"outside" physical forces, comprising maintenance, transmission, and
distribution employees; and (2) the "inside" physical forces, compris-
ing production and maintenance employees working within the sev-
eral generating plants of the Companies. Employees in these two
groups in their several job categories generally perform the work
usually done by such employees working in an electric public utility
system.
The IBEW contends that employees ui group 1, who are engaged
in maintenance, transmission, and distribution services, constitute an
appropriate bargaining unit apart from employees in group 2, who
work in the generating plants. Local Union o. 148 of the Operating
Engineers contends that employees in group 2, Who work in the gene-
rating plants, constitute a single appropriate bargaining unit apart
from employees in group 1. Tri-State contends that employees in
group 1 and employees in group 2 constitute a single appropriate bar-
gaining unit. The Chemical Workers contends that employees at the
Granite City generating plant constitute a.separate appropriate bar-
gaining unit apart from other employees of the Companies. Local
Unit No. 2 of the IBEW, Local Union No. 2 of the Operating Engi-
for April 21, 1945, in its proposed bargaining unit. There are approximately 900 employees
in the unit proposed by the IBEW.
Local Union No 148 of the Operating Engineers submitted its contract covering employ-
ees at the Osage, Cahokia, Venice No 1, and Venice No 2 generating plants of the
Companies, and submitted 59 authorization cards bearing the names of Granite City
plant employees, numbering approximately 63 employees There are approximately 950
employees in the unit proposed by Local Union No. 148 of the Operating Engineers.
The.Chenucal Workers submitted its contract covering employees at the Granite City
plant
Local Union No 2 of -the IBEIV, Local Union No. 2 of the Operating Engineers, the
Firemen, and the I%tachimsts each submitted its contract coveting craft employees at the
Mound Street plant, subject .to its jurisdiction There are appioxunately 40 employees at
this plan`
Tri-State submitted its contract covering employees for whom it is the recognized
bargaining representative There aie approximately 1,850 employees in the unit proposed
by Tri-State.
5 A petition covering sales, office, and clerical employees in Case No 14-R-1262 has been
filed by the IBEW and is now pending
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neers, the Firemen, and the Machinists, as craft unions representing
craft employees at the Mound Street plant, contend that these em-
ployees constitute appropriate bargaining units apart from other
employees of the Companies.
The IBEW and Local Union No. 148 of the Operating Engineers
contend that the units which they respectively urge are appropriate,
since each proposed unit includes employees in a clearly identified
working group on a system-wide basis, and the Companies substan-
tially agree 'with their contentions. Tri-State urges that the sys-
tem-wide unit of all physical forces is the most desirable unit for
utility workers, where the scope of union organiztition of employees
concerned makes bargaining on this basis possible. The Chemical
Workers and the four affiliated craft organizations, which presently
represent employees at the recently acquired Granite City and Mound
Street plants,' respectively, contend that the history of collective,
bargaining between the employees concerned and their employers
should govern the scope of the bargaining unit found to be appropriate
for them.
B. The history of collective bargaining
On August 27, 1941, following elections by secret ballot,e the Board
certified Local Union No. 148 of the Operating Engineers as bargain-
ing representative for employees at the Osage, Cahokia, and Venice
No. 1 power plants, respectively, and Tri-State as the bargaining rep-
resentative for employees at the Ashley Street power plant and for
clerical, office, and sales employees. Following the Board's certifica-
tion, these two labor organizations extended their representation
among the Companies' employees. Tri-State gained recognition from
the Company as bargaining representative of employees at the Keo-
kuk plant I and as bargaining representative of maintenance, trans-
mission and distribution employees, excluding such employees at East
St. Louis and Alton,.for whom the Companies had long recognized
local unions of the IBEW as bargaining representatives. The Operat-
ing Engineers extended its organization and gained recognition as
bargaining representative for employees at Venice Power plant No.
2 and, pursuant to a petition filed in Case No. 14-R-860, was certified
as bargaining representative of the Company's load dispatchers.8 As
set forth above, the Companies only recently acquired control of the
Granite City and the Mound Street power plants and, upon acquisi-
tion, recognized as bargaining representatives for employees at these
plants, labor organizations respectively recognized by their predeces-
sors over a long period of time-the Chemical Workers for employees
at the Granite City plant, and the Machinists, the Firemen, Local
See 33N L R B 1
At the time of the hearing the Companies no longer operated the Keokuk facilities
See 59 N. L . R. B. 276.
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Union No. 2 of the IBEW, and Local Union No. 2 of the Operating
Engineers for employees at the Mound Street plant.
C. Conclusions
We have frequently found that employees in separate plants or
departments of a public utility constitute appropriate bargaining
units when the scope of organization among employees is limited to
the plants or departments proposed. We believe that a system-wide
unit of physical workers or system-wide units of homogeneous groups
of physical workers on a system-wide basis are prima facie appro-
priate for the Companies' employees. As noted above, however, the
Companies' facilities have been only recently augmented by the
acquisition of the Mound Street plant in St. Louis and the Granite
City plant. Over long periods of time, employees at these plants
have dealt with their employees on plant-craft and plant bases, respec-
tively. When the Companies acquired control of the operations of
these plants, they continued the contractual relations in the patterns
which their predecessors had begun.
In view of the recent acquisition of the Granite City and Mound
Street plants, the contentions of the several parties, the extent of
union organization aniong the Companies' employees, and the history
of collective bargaining between the employees herein concerned and-
the Companies and their predecessors, we shall make no present deter-
mination of the unit or units appropriate for bargaining purposes.
We shall hold separate elections among the Companies' employees in
the following groups: (1) employees engaged in maintenance, trans-
mission, and distribution services, whom we designated above the
"outside" physical forces; (2) employees at the Mound Street power
plant; (3) employees at the Granite City power plant; and (4)
employees at other generating plants of the Companies.9 We shall
make our determination of the unit or units appropriate for employees
of the Companies dependent in part upon the results of the elections.
D. The voting groups
Group 1. The IBEW, which contends that employees engaged in
maintenance, transmission, and' distribution services constitute an
appropriate unit, describes the unit as follows : all building service,
country club, meter department, meter reading, overhead, under-
ground, trouble and installation, steam heating, stores, utility shop
and salvage, substations, transmission, distribution, and transporta-
tion employees of the Companies, ekcluding employees engaged in
9In addition to the several generating plants named above, the Companies operate the
River Mines plant as a stand -by plant. The River Mines plant was not in operation at the
time of the hearing.,
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production and maintenance work, at power generating stations, load
dispatchers, office and clerical employees, professional and technical
employees, foremen, and other supervisory employees within our
usual definition of that term. Tri-State, which is the only other labor
organization claiming to represent employees in this group, contends
that professional and technical employees should be included, and
not excluded from the group. Since professional and technical em-
ployees generally receive higher wages than production and main-
tenance employees in these categories, and even those who do not
receive higher wages have interests and problems different from those
of ordinary. production and maintenance workers, we will exclude
professional and technical employees and we will adopt the pro-
posed unit as a voting group.
We shall provide that the IBEW and Tri-State participate in the
election among these employees.
Group 2: Employees at the Mound Street plant who have been
specifically included in the several contracts of the Firemen, the
Machinists, Local Union No. 2 of the Operating Engineers, and Local
Union No. 2 of the IBE;W are head firemen, firemen, pump men,
oilers, maintenance and repair men, maintenance helpers, fuel and
ash handlers, engineers, switchboard operators, maintenance elec-
tricians and their helpers, senior plant mechanic machinists, and plant
mechanic machinists, who substantially constitute the production and
maintenance employees at the plant. We shall hold one election among
all production and maintenance employees at the Mound Street plant,
excluding office and clerical employees, 'professional and technical
employees, and supervisory employees within our usual definition of
that term. We shall provide that the four affiliated craft unions
who presently represent employees at the plant in craft groups shall
appear on the ballot collectively as Affiliated Craft Unions (Inter-
national Association of Machinists, District #9, International
Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers, Local No. 6, International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 2, International Union
of 'Operating Engineers, Local Union 2). Also upon the ballot will
appear Local Union No. 148 of the Operating Engineers, and Tri-
State. {
Group 3: Employees at the Granite City plant who have been repre-
sented by the Chemical Workers are described in its contract as falling
within the following job categories: engineers, first electricians, chem-
ists, turbine operators, switchboard operators, first firemen, water
tenders, second firemen, first oilers, second oilers, water treaters, pump
men, crane ope'rato'rs, boiler washers, maintenance mechanics, mainte-
nance'helpers, 'carpenters and' painters, cooler washer, and gas line
walkers, and laborers. Assumably, employees in these'categories com-
prise the production' and maintenance employees at this plant. We
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-will hold an election among all production and maintenance employees
at the Granite City plant, excluding office and clerical employees, pro-
fessional and technical employees, and all supervisory employees
within our usual definition of that term. We will provide that the
-Chemical Workers, Local Union No. 148 of the Operating Engineers,-
and Tri-State participate in the election among these employees.
Groin 4: We will hold an election among production and mainte-
nance employees at the generating plants of the Companies other than
-the Mound Street and Granite City plants. The labor organizations
claiming to represent these employees are Local Union No. 148 of the
Operating Engineers and Tri-State. The Operating Engineers would
-exclude from the unit of generating plant employees load dispatchers,
who we found, in the prior representation proceeding noted above,
constituted an appropriate bargaining unit. Tri-State would include
-load dispatchers in the system-wide unit of physical workers, which
it proposes is presently appropriate. Since load dispatchers have
probably a great community of interest with generating plant
^•employees than with employees engaged in building maintenance,
transmission, and distribution services, we shall include load dis-
patchers in the residual generating plant unit. We shall' exclude
from this unit employees in categories excluded in our unit find-
ings for generating plant employees in the prior case involving the
Osage, Cahokia, and Venice generating plants. Those eligible to vote
in the residual generating plant group will be all production and main-
tenance employees at the generating plants of the Companies other
than the Mound Street and Granite City plants, including load dis-
patchers, but excluding boiler room operators, turbine room operators,
turbine-house-watch engineers, engineers, assistant engineers, tech-
nical engineers, assistant technical engineers, laboratory and testing
engineers, inspectors, sanitary and safety inspectors, chemists, sta-
tistical stenographers, stores clerks, all clerks and office employees,
-foremen, assistant foremen, and all other supervisory employees within
our usual definition of that term.
Those eligible to vote in the separate elections which we shall now
direct shall be all employees in the four groups described above who
were employed during the pay-roll period immediately preceding the
date of the issuance of this Decision and Direction of Elections, sub-
ject to the limitations and additions set forth in the Direction.
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
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,
and pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
-Board Rules and Regulations-Series 3, as amended, it is hereby
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DIRECTED that, -as part of the investigation to ascertain represents=
fives for the purposes of collective bargaining with -Union , Electric
Company of Missouri and Union Electric Power Company, St. Louis,
Missouri , separate elections by secret ballot shall be conducted,
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as early
as possible; but not later than thirty ( 30) days from the date of this
Direction ,'under ' the' direction and supervision ' of the Regional Direc-
tor for the Fourteenth Region, acting in this matter as agent for, the
National Labor Relations Board, and subject to Article III, Sections
10 and 11, of said Rules and Regulations , among all employees.in the
groups described below, who were employed during the pay-roll period
iminediately 'preceding the date of this Direction , including employees
who did not work during said pay-roll period because they ,were ill or on
vacation or temporarily laid off, and including employees in the armed
forces of the United States who present themselves. in person at the
polls, but excluding those employees who have since quit or been dis-
charged for cause and have not been rehired or reinstated prior to, the
date of the, elections;
(1) All building service, country club, meter department, meter
reading, overhead , underground, trouble and installation , steam heat-
ing, stores , utility shop and salvage , substations, transmission, dis-
tribution , and transportation employees of the Companies , excluding
employees engaged in production and maintenance work at power
generating stations , load dispatchers , office and clerical employees,
professional and technical employees , foremen, and other supervisory
employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, discipline, or
otherwise effect changes in the status^of employees , or effectively rec-
ommend such action , to determine whether they desire to be repre-
sented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F.
of L.), or by Tri-State Utility Workers Union, affiliated with Utility
Workers Organizing Committee , CIO, for the purposes of collective
bargaining, or by neither;
(2) All production and maintenance employees of the Companies
at the Mound Street plant, excluding office and clerical employees,
professional and technical employees , and all supervisory employees
with authority to hire, promote , discharge , discipline , or otherwise
effect changes in the status of employees , or effectively recommend
such action, to determine whether they desire to be represented by
the Affiliated Craft Unions (International Association of Machinists,
District #9; International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers, Local
No. 6; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union
No. 2: and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local Unions
No. 2), or by International Union of Operating Engineers, Local
Union No. 148, or by Tri-State Utility Workers Union, affiliated with
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Utility Workers Organizing Committee, CIO,--for the purposes of
collective bargaining, or by none;
(3) All production and maintenance employees at the Granite City
plant, excluding office and clerical employees, professional and tech-
nical employees, and all supervisory employees with authority to hire,
promote, discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status
of employees, or effectively recommend such action, to determine
whether they desire to be represented by International Chemical.Work-
ers Union, Local 50, or by International Union of Operating Engi-
neers,' Local Union No. 148, or by Tri-State Utility Workers Union,
affiliated with. Utility Workers Organizing Committee, CIO, for the
purposes of collective bargaining, or by none; and
(4) All production and maintenance employees at the generating
plants of the Companies other than the Mound Street and Granite
'City plants, including load dispatchers, but excluding boiler room
operators, turbine room operators, turbine-house-watch engineers,
engineers, assistant engineers, technical engineers, assistant technical
engineers, laboratory and testing engineers, inspectors, sanitary, and
safety inspectors, chemists, statistical stenographers, stores clerks, all
clerks and office employees, foremen, assistant. foremen, and all other
supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, dis-
cipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of employees,,or ef-
fectively recommend such action, to determine whether they desire to
be represented' by Tri-State Utility Workers Union, affiliated - with
Utility Workers Organizing Committee, CIO. or by International
Union of Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 148, for the purposes
of collective bargaining, or by neither.
`[See,'infra, 64 N. L. R. B.. 1461; for Supplement,nl Decision and
Certification of Representatives.],
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