Western Union Telegraph Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 14, 1941

30 N.L.R.B. 1169 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY and AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR, COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS UNION,
Case No. R-246.-Decided April 14,1941
Jurisdiction : telegraph industry.
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : existence of question : con-
flicting claims of rival representatives ; election necessary.
Where name of independent labor organization does not appear on ballot
because of insufficient membership showing, immediate election directed at
request of petitioner and over objection of intervenor despite pendency of
charge against Company filed in another region involving legality, of the
independent labor organization.
Unit Appropriate for Collective Bargaining : employees of the Company work-
ing in Metropolitan Pittsburgh in the commercial, traffic, plant, and accounting
departments, excluding executives, lawyers, confidential employees, temporary
messengers, and named supervisory employees.
City-wide unit held appropriate where the organizations requesting such a
unit showed substantial membership therein and where the representation
claim of the only organization desiring a larger unit (division-wide) does not
constitute a siifpicient shokiiig' of'employee self-organization on a division-
wide basis to support its unit contentions.
Mr. Henry Shore, for the Board. -
Mr. Ralph If. Kimbal, of New York City, for the Company.
Mr. Henry H. Silverman, of New York City, Mr. Hugh C. Me en-
nney, of Washington, D. C:, and Mr. Frank Powers, of Chicago, 111.,
for the-C. T. U.
Mr. Benjamin C. Sigal, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Mr. Sidney Elliott Cohn,
Mr. Victor Rabinowitz, and Mr. J. P. Selly, of New York City, for the
A. C. A.
Mr. Herman E. Cooper, by Mr. Moss Schenkman, of New York City,
for the Guild.
Mr. Gilbert V. Rosenberg, of counsel to the Board. -
DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On October: 11, 1940,.American Federation of Labor, Commercial
Telegraphers Union, herein called the C. T. U., filed with the Re-
gional Director for the Sixth Region (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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a petition alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen
concerning the representation of employees of Western Union Tele-
graph Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, herein called the Company,
and requesting an investigation and certification of representatives
pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On December 7, 1940, the
National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, acting
pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III, Section 3, of
National Labor -Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended, ordered an investigation and authorized the Regional,
Director to conduct it and to provide for an appropriate hearing
upon due notice. I
On December 21, 1940, the Regional Director issued a notice of
hearing, copies of which were duly' served upon the Company, and
the C. T. U., and upon American Communications Association and
its Local 54-B, herein collectively called the A. C. A., and Communi-
cations Guild, herein called the Guild, labor organizations claiming to
represent employees directly affected by the investigation. On De-
cember 27, 1940, the Regional Director denied a request by the
A. C. A. and the Guild for a postponement of the hearing. The
ruling of the Regional Director is hereby affirmed. Pursuant to
the notice, a hearing was held on January 2, 3, and 4,, 1941, at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before Charles Persons, the Trial Ex-
aminer duly designated by the Chief Trial Examiner. The Board,
the Company, the C. T. U., the A. C. A., and the Guild, were rep-
resented by counsel and participated in -the hearing. Full oppor-
tunity to be heard, to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to
introduce evidence bearing on the issues was afforded all parties.
At the opening of the hearing the Guild filed a petition requesting
that the Board consolidate the instant proceeding with another rep-
resentation proceeding involving employees of the Company pend-
ing in the Second Region or, in the alternative, that the Board
stay the instant proceeding until the determination of the repre-
sentation proceeding in the Second Region. The Trial Examiner
reserved decision on this petition for the Board. On January 10,
1941, the C. T. U. filed a statement opposing the petition. On Janu-
ary 13, 1941, the Board. denied said petition.
During the hearing the A. C. A. moved to incorporate as part of
the record in this case the record in a prior representation pro-
ceeding involving employees of the Company at Pittsburgh entitled
flatter of Western Union. Telegraph Company and American Com-
m2unications 'Association, Local 541-B, affiliated with the Congress
of Industrial Oi;gan^zations,1 herein called Case No. R-1703. The
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Trial Examiner reserved ruling on this motion for the Board. It
is hereby denied. In the course of the hearing the Trial Examiner
ruled on several other motions and on several objections to the
admission of evidence. The Board has reviewed all the rulings of
the Trial Examiner and finds that no prejudicial errors were com-
mitted. The rulings are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to notice, a hearing wab held before the Board in Wash-
ington, D. C., on February 18, 1941, for the purpose of oral argument.
The Company, the C. T. U., the A. C. A., and the Guild were repre-
sented by counsel and participated in the argument.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY 2
The Western Union Telegraph Company, a 'New York corporation
with its principal office in New York City, is engaged throughout the
United States and in foreign countries in the receiving,and trans-
mission by telegraph and cable of intrastate, interstate, and interna-
tional communications. At the close of 1940 the Company employed
approximately 43,500 persons, of which number approximately 1,350
were located outside the United States. The present proceeding con-
cerns only those employees of the Company working in and about
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Company employs over 500
persons.
The Company admits that it is engaged, in interstate commerce
within the meaning of the Act.
H. THE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
Commercial Telegraphers Union is a labor organization affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor, admitting to its membership
employees of the Company.
American Communications Association is a labor organization
affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, admitting to
membership through its Local 54-B employees of the Company at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Communications Guild is an unaffiliated labor organization
admitting to * its membership employees of the Company.
III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
In October 1940 the C. T. U., claiming to represent a majority of
the Company 's Pittsburgh employees, requested the Company to,
These findings are based on stipulation of facts:
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recognize it as the exclusive bargaining representative of such em-
ployees. The Company demands proof of the C. T. U.'s majority
representation . At the hearing competing labor organizations made
conflicting contentions concerning the appropriate unit.
There was introduced in evidence a report prepared by the Regional
Director showing that both the C. T., U. and the A. C. A. represent
a substantial number of employees in the unit hereinafter found to
be appropriated .3 The Guild claims that it represents more than
,1400 of the Company's 15,000 employees in the Eastern Division in
which Pittsburgh is situated, and more than 1,600 of the Company's
15,000 employees in its Metropolitan New York Division, but admits
that it has less than 50 adherents at Pittsburgh. It offered no docu-
mentary evidence to show that it represents any employees at
Pittsburgh.' ,
We find that a question has arisen concerning the representation
of employees of the Company.
IV. THE EFFECT OF THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
UPON COMMERCE
We find that the question concerning representation which has
arisen, occurring in connection with the operations of the Company
described in Section I above, has a close, intimate, and substantial rela-'
tion to trade, traffic, and commerce among the several States and
with foreign countries, and tends to lead to labor disputes burdening
and obstructing commerce and the free flow of commerce.
V. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT
The C. T. U. and,the A. C. A. both contend that the unit appropriate
for the collective bargaining should be confined to employees of the
Company in Metropolitan Pittsburgh.5 The Company, contending
that a system-wide unit is appropriate, stated that it "is familiar with
the action of the Board in asserting that it would be unfair to deny
to organized employees at particular places the benefit of the Act
pending nation-wide organization." The Guild, asserting that it has
i The Regional Director 's report shows that the C . T. U. submitted 244, and the A. C. A.
158, application cards signed by employees whose names appeared on the October 26, 1940,
pay roll of the Company and that 62 employees signed application cards for both of these
labor organizations . There are approximately 500 employees in the unit hereinafter found
to be appropriate.
• At the hearing counsel for the Guild asserted that the Guild 's proofs of membership
were on file with the Board 's Regional Director for the Second Region The Trial Exam-
iner granted the Guild the opportunity of submitting such proof to the Regional Director
for the Sixth Region after the close of the hearing and ordered that the record remain open
for the purpose of receiving it The Guild has failed to avail itself of this opportunity.
The Board accordingly declares the record closed
5 This area includes the city of Pittsburgh and several adjacent communities , including
McKeesport , Coraopolis , Braddock , Sewickley , Homestead , Ambridge, and East Pittsburgh
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organized on a division basis," contends either that the Eastern Divi-
sion of the Company, which includes the Metropolitan Pittsburgh
area, constitutes an appropriate unit or that the Eastern Division and
the Metropolitan New York Division together constitute an ' appro-
priate unit.
Although the Board has in many instances involving the communi-
cations industry found a Nation-wide bargaining unit appropriate,' it
has refrained from doing so in cases where, as here, bona fide employee
self-organization has been conducted upon the basis of smaller geo-
graphical units and has not achieved national scope."
The Guild's contention that a unit restricted to Metropolitan Pitts-
burgh is inappropriate is, under the circumstances here present, with-
out merit. The Guild claims to represent only about 10 per cent of
the employees of the Company in the Eastern Division, and about 15
per cent of the employees in the combined Eastern and Metropolitan
New York Divisions of the Company. On the other hand the C. T. U.
and the A. C. A. both have made showings of substantial membership
among the Company's employees at Pittsburgh. The Guild's claim
constitutes an insufficient showing of employee self-organization on
a division-wide basis to support its unit contentions.,, Under all the
circumstances we find that a bargaining unit limited to the Company's
employees in Metropolitan Pittsburgh is appropriate.10 ,
Five separate units of the Company's business organization have
their headquarters in Pittsburgh. These are the commercial , traffic,
plant, and accounting departments and the district superintendent's
unit. The C. T. U. and the A. C. A. agree that the appropriate bar-
gaining unit includes employees in Metropolitan Pittsburgh in the
commercial, traffic, and plant departments. The C. T. U. proposes,
and the A. C. A. opposes inclusion of the accounting department.
For administrative purposes the operations of the Company are divided into six terri-
torial divisions covering the whole of the United States . The Eastern Division with head-
quarters in New York City comprises the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut , New York ( excluding New York City), Delaware,
Maryland , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Eastern Shore of Virginia , and West Virginia.
7 Matter of Postal Telegraph -Cable Corporation and Commercial Telegraphers ' Union,
9 N. L R B. 1060.
8 Matter of R. C. A. Communications, Inc. and American Radio Telegi aphists Associatson,
2 N. L. R. B. 1109 ; Matter of The Western Union Telegraph Company, Inc . and The Com-
mercial Telegraphers ' Union, 11 N . L. R. B. 1154 ; Matter of The Western Union Telegraph
Company and Commercial Telegraphers Union, Indpls . Local #7, Western Union Div. #2,
At with A. F. of L., 17 N. L. R. B. 683.
9 There is now pending in the Second Region a charge filed by the C T. U. and another
labor organization , alleging that the Guild is employer -dominated . The'C. T. U. has, for
the purposes of this proceeding, luaived the Guild's alleged illegality. The A C A' asserts
that it does not join in that luaiver . . Our decision as to the scope of the unit does not under
the circumstances require consideration of the Guild's disputed status.
10 See Matter of Western Union Telegraph Companif and American Communcciations Asso-
ciation Local 54-B, Affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations , 23 N L. R B.
824.
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The Company and the Guild make no contentions concerning the
departmental scope of the unit.
The commercial department, comprising 192 employees, deals with
the pick-up and delivery of messages and the operation of branch
offices in Metropolitan Pittsburgh. The traffic department, with 276
employees, has charge of the transmission of messages which origi-
nate in or which are delivered in Metropolitan Pittsburgh. It oper-
ates and maintains the telegraph equipment located on two floors
of the Chamber of Commerce 'Building in Pittsburgh.- The plant
department serves western Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, most
'of West Virginia, and parts of Maryland and western New York.
Of approximately 45 employees in the department, about 23 work in
Metropolitan Pittsburgh. These employees maintain the physical
plant outside the traffic-department premises and install and dis-
connect equipment. While the, jurisdiction of the plant department
extends far beyond Pittsburgh; approximately one-half of the em-
ployees within the department are directly engaged in carrying on
the Company's business in Metropolitan Pittsburgh. Although in
an emergency these employees may be sent to any part of the area
served by the plant department, they regularly are stationed and
perform their services in Metropolitan Pittsburgh. We find that
the employees working in Metropolitan Pittsburgh in the commercial,
traffic, and plant departments should be included in the appropriate
unit.
The accounting department does auditing and accounting work
for the Metropolitan Pittsburgh offices, as well as summarization
work for 79 outside offices within the jurisdiction of the district su-
perintendent. The record shows that' all 23 of the accounting-
department employees, with the possible exception of the accounting
manager, are stationed in and do all their work in Pittsburgh and
that 65 per cent of their time is devoted to work for the Metropolitan
Pittsburgh offices and 35 per cent for the outlying offices. On the
basis of this record, we shall include the accounting-department em-
ployees in the appropriate unit.12
The district superintendent's organization, with headqutvrters in
Pittsburgh, has a territorial jurisdiction covering western Pennsyl-
vania, exclusive of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, all of West Virginia,
and western New York. Throughout this area the work of the dis-
trict superintendent's unit is similar to the functions of the Pittsburgh
commercial department. There are approximately 400 employees un-
-" The traffic department also delivers messages by telephone and through teleprinter
lines terminating in the offices of business firms.
2 In Case No . R-1703, the Board, at the request of the A. C . A., excluded the accounting
department from the unit . On the record in that case the Board concluded that these
employees are not directly engaged in carrying on the Company 's operations in Pittsburgh
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der the district superintendent, but only 6, including the district
superintendent, are stationed in Pittsburgh. These six employees
have no relation to the Metropolitan Pittsburgh employees of the
Company except that they work in Pittsburgh. Transfers of em-
ployees between the district superintendent's unit and the Metropoli-
tan Pittsburgh commercial department rarely, if ever, occur. We
shall exclude the employees of the district superintendent's Pittsburgh
headquarters from the appropriate unit.
The C. T. U. and the A. C. A. request the exclusion of executives,
lawyers, and temporary messengers. The A. C. A. would also ex-
clude confidential employees.13 No objections were offered by, any
of the parties to these ,exclusions. We shall exclude all of the above
employees from the appropriate unit.
Questions arose at the hearing concerning the exclusion of certain
supervisory employees from the appropriate unit. We shall con-
sider these exclusions by departments.
Commercial department
The Company, the C. T. U., and the A. C. A. agree to exclude the
superintendent, office manager, delivery manager, sales manager, and
cashier.
The A. C. A.' would also exclude, as supervisory employees, the
following: assistant delivery manager; delivery supervisors; branch
soliciting managers; and one J. W. Bartell, who is listed on the pay
roll as a clerk. The C. T. U. opposes all these exclusions. The as-
sistant delivery manager acts for the delivery manager in his absence.
We shall exclude him from the unit. There are two delivery super-
visors, one of whom works at night. It is the function of the delivery
supervisors to see that' messages are delivered. They supervise the
delivery work and direct other employees in their work. It appears
that the delivery supervisors exercise a substantial degree of super-
vision over the messengers. We are of the opinion that they are
essentially identified with management and that they should be ex-
cluded from the unit.
There are 23 branch offices in Metropolitan Pittsburgh,7 of which
are managed by persons who spend most of their time on the outside
soliciting business, commonly referred to as branch soliciting mana-
gers. All 7 of these managers have' at least 1 clerk, -in addition to
messengers, under them in their respectives offices, while only 2 of
the 16 branch managers have clerks under them. Branch soliciting
managers earn approximately $75 a month more-than branch mana-
gers who work inside the offices and operate teleprinter machines.
The C. T. U. and the A. C. A. agree and we find that branch managers
13 At the time of the hearing no persons within this classification ere employed by the
Company.
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are properly within the unit. We are satisfied, however, that branch
soliciting managers are identified more closely with management than
are branch managers and we shall exclude them from the unit.
The instant record shows that Bartell, classified-as a clerk, relieves
persons in the delivery department for lunch; that he is in charge of
the uniform equipment in the messenger department; and that he
receives applications for employment from messengers and notifies
messengers of their employment. Sotek, a messenger, testified that
Bartell actually hires the messengers and fills out the employment
slips which are forwarded to the delivery manager for approval.
We are of the opinion that the facts disclosed by the record herein
show that Bartell is sufficiently identified with management to warrant
his exclusion. We shall therefore exclude him from the Unit. 14
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Traffic department
The Company, the C. T. U., and the A. C. A. agree to exclude
from the unit the traffic manager, night traffic managers, and assistant
chief operator. The Company and the A. C. A. would also exclude
the automatic chief and the testing and regulating chief. The A.
C. A. further desires to exclude, over the objection of the C. T. U.,
the night testing and regulating chief, repeater chief, automatic
supervisors, teleprinter supervisors, telephone supervisors, Morse
supe'rvisor•, route supervisors, service supervisors, and 'the automatic
monitor.
The traffic department is divided functionally into the following
departments : automatic, teleprinting, testing and regulating, tele-
phone, Morse, route, and service. The traffic manager is in charge
of the department, and the two night traffic managers take the traffic
manager's place during their respective night shifts. The assistant
chief operator is in charge of the automatic and 'teleprinter depart-
ments. He assigns work to the employees in these departments and
has authority to *discipline by caution and warning, and to order
temporary suspensions from duty for infractions of the rules. The
automatic chief reports to the traffic manager. He supervises the
work of at least seven employees and assigns work to them.' The
testing and regulating chief has authority in his department similar
to that possessed by the assistant chief operator. The night testing
and regulating chief is in charge of the department on the early night
shift. Subordinate to the testing and regulating chief is the re-
peater chief, who supervises the work of approximately eight assist-
ant repeater chiefs.- We shall exclude all the foregoing employees
from the unit.
U In Case No. R-1703 we found that the record was Insufficient to warrant the exclusion
of Bartell as a supervisory employee.
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On the traffic-department pay roll are six automatic supervisors,
five teleprinter supervisors, four telephone supervisors, a Morse su-
pervisor, two route supervisors, and two service supervisors. One
supervisor in the telephone, route, and service departments, respec-
tively, and all supervisors in the other above-named departments, re-
port directly to the traffic manager. ' The record is clear that all these
supervisors have essentially the same degree of authority in their
respective' departments. The average difference between the salaries
of each supervisor and of the operators who work under them is ap-
proximately $40 per month. The supervisors assign work to the
employees who work under them and have general responsi-
bility for the performance of that work. Upon all the evidence,
we shall exclude the above supervisors. The automatic monitor re-
ports on the quality, and quantity of work performed by the employees
of her department. We shall exclude this employee from the'unit.
Plant department
The Company, the C. T. U., and the A. C. A. agree to exclude
the maintenance foreman ' and the city foreman in this department
from the unit. We shall exclude these two employees from the unit.
Accounting department
The A. C. A. requests that in the event the Board includes "in the
unit employees of the accounting department, the accounting manager
and the assistant manager be excluded. The C. T. U. opposes the
exclusion of the assistant accounting manager. The accounting mana-
ger is in complete charge of the department, and the assistant manager
assumes most of the duties of the manager in his absence. We shall
exclude the manager and assistant manager from the unit:
We find that the employees of the Company working in Metro-
politan Pittsburgh in the commercial, traffic, plant, and accounting
departments, excluding executives, lawyers, confidential employees,
temporary messengers, J. W. Bartell, and the other supervisory em-'
ployees whose exclusions we have indicated above and whose posi-
tions are, for convenience, listed in Appendices A, B, C, and D,
constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining,
and that said unit will insure. to employees of the Company the full
benefit of their right to self-organization and.to collective bargaining
and otherwise effectuate the policies of the Act. .
VI. THE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
We find that, the question concerning representation of employees
of the Company can best be resolved by an election by secret ballot.
The Guild requested to participate in any election ordered by the
Board but failed to submit any documentary evidence of designation
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by the Pittsburgh employees of the Company. Under these circum-
stances, the Guild has' not made a sufficient showing to participate
in an election and we shall not place its name on the ballot.
The A. C. A. argues that no election should be held pending dis-
position of the charge involving the legality of the Guild. We are
of the opinion, however, that,the pendency of a charge in the Second
Region will not affect the results of-the election at Pittsburgh,and
that it will best effectuate the policies of the Act to have an immedi-
ate election. We shall therefore direct that an election by secret ballot
be held among all employees within the appropriate unit who were
employed during the pay-roll period last preceding the date, of this
Direction, subject to such limitations and additions as are set forth
in the Direction.
Upon the basis of the above findings of fact and upon the entire
record of the case, the Board makes the following :
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. A question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of Western Union Telegraph Company, Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Sec-
tion 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. The employees of the Company working in Metropolitan Pitts-
burgh in the commercial, traffic, plant, and accounting departments,
excluding executives, lawyers, confidential employees, temporary mes-
sengers, J. W. Bartell, and the supervisory employees occupying the
positions listed in Appendices A, B, C, and D, constitute a unit appro-
priate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning
of Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, it
is hereby
DIRECTED that, as-part of the investigation ordered by the Board
to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining
with Western Union Telegraph Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
an election by secret ballot shall be conducted 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 Director for the
Sixth Region, acting in this matter 'as agent for the National Labor
Relations Board, and subject to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules
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,and Regulations, among employees of the Company working in Met-
ropolitan Pittsburgh in the commercial, traffic, plant, and accounting
departments, who were employed during the pay-roll period last
preceding the date of this Direction, including employees who did
not work during such pay-roll period because they were ill or on
vacation or in the active military service or training of the United
States, or temporarily laid off or on furlough, but excluding execu-
tives, lawyers, confidential employees, temporary messengers, J. W.
Bartell, and the supervisory employees occupying the positions listed
in Appendices A, B, C, and D, attached hereto, and further excluding
any employees who have since quit. or been discharged for cause, to
determine whether they desire to be represented by Commercial
Telegraphers Union, affiliated with the American Federation of La-
bor, or by American Communications Association, Local 54-B', affili-
ated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, for the purposes
of collective bargaining, or by neither.
MR. EDWIN S. SMITH, dissenting:
I concur in the determination of the appropriate bargaining unit.
I would not, however, hold an election at this time. The C. T. U.
has filed charges of unfair labor practices against the Company
alleging that the Guild is employer-dominated. The Guild claims
members among the Company's Pittsburgh employees and unfair
labor practices by the Company in relation to the Guild would con-
stitute interference with employee self-organization at Pittsburgh.
While the C. T. U. has waived the issues raised by its charges the
A. C. A. apparently fears that the existence of a labor organization
whose legality has been called in question will interfere with the
holding of a fair election. Under these circumstances I would defer
the election until disposition of the charges.
APPENDIX A
Commercial Department
Superintendent Sales Manager
Office Manager Assistant Delivery Manager
Delivery Manager Delivery Supervisors
CsshiPr Branch Soliciting Managers
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APPENDIX B -
Traffic ' Department
Traffic Manager Automatic Supervisors
Night Traffic Managers Teleprinter Supervisors
Assistant Chief Operator Telephone Supervisors
Automatic Chief Morse Supervisor
Testing and Regulating Chief Route Supervisor
Night Testing and Regulating Service Supervisors
Chief Automatic Monitor
Repeater Chief
APPENDIX C
Plant Department
Maintenance Foreman City Foreman
APPENDIX D
Accounting Department
Accounting Manager A ssistant Accounting Manager
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