Westinghouse Airbrake Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 22, 1937

3 N.L.R.B. 867 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of WESTINGHOUSE AIRBRAKE COMPANY and UNITED
ELECTRICAL AND RADIO WORKERS OF AMERICA, RAILWAY EQUIPMENT
WORKERS LOCAL NO. 610
Case. No. R-28o
Mr. Robert H. Kleeb for the Board.
Thorpe, Bostwick, Reid and Armstrong, by Mr. R. G. Bostwick, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Company.
Mr. Alexander Shaw and Mr. Herman Recht, of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
for the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America,
Railway Equipment Workers Local No. 610.
Mr. Charles L. McCormick and Mr. R. L. McDonald, of Pittsburgh,
Pa., for the United Employees Association of the Westinghouse Air-
brake Company.
Mr. J. Mark Jacobson, of counsel to the Board.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
October A 1937
The National Labor Relations Board, having found upon an ex-
amination of the record in the above matter that a question affecting
commerce has arisen concerning the representation of employees of
Westinghouse Airbrake Company, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, and
that all the production and maintenance employees of Westinghouse
Airbrake Company at its Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, plant, except
superintendents , foremen, assistant foremen, group leaders, working
group leaders, inspectors , clerical employees, and all employees in the
engineering and drafting departments, constitute a'unit appropriate
for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of Sec-
tion 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and act-
ing pursuant to the power vested in it by Section'9 (c) of said Act,
and pursuant to Article III, Section 8 of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, hereby
DIRECTS that, as part of its investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Westinghouse
Airbrake Company, an election by secret ballot shall be conducted
within a period of ten (10) days after the date of this Direction of
Election, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Di-
rector for the Sixth Region, acting in this matter as the agent of
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the National Labor Relations Board and subject to Article III, Sec-
tion 9 of said Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, among
all the production and maintenance employees of Westinghouse Air-
brake Company at its Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, plant who were on
its pay, roll for the week including June,16, 1937, except ,superin-
tendents, foremen, assistant foremen, group •leaders,,working group
leaders, inspectors, clerical employees, and all employees in the en-
gineering and drafting departments, to determine whether they desire
to be represented by the United Electrical and Radio Workers of
America, Railway Equipment Workers Local No. 610, affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial Organization, or the United Employees
Association•of the Westinghouse Airbrake Comi5any; for the purposes
of collective bargaining, or by neither:
CHAIRMAN MADDEN' took no"part in' the consideration of the above
Direction of Election.
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AMENDMENT TO DIRECTION O,F ELECTION
October 29, 1937 •
On October 22, 1937, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Direction of Election in the above-entitled
proceeding, the election, to be held within ten . (10) ' days. from, the
date of, Direction, under the direction . and supervision of. the
Regional' Director for the Sixth Region (Pittsburgh,.Pennsylvania) .
The Board, having been, advised that ,a longer, period is necessaryi
hereby amends the Direction of Election issued on, October. 22;,1937,
by. striking therefrom, wherever, they occur, the,,words, ."within, a
period of ten (10) days after the date of this Direction of Election'
and substituting therefor the words, "within a period of twenty (20)
days from the date of . this Direction".