Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 25, 1942

41 N.L.R.B. 261 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

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In the Matter Of WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COM-
PANY and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS,
LOCAL No. B-1308 (A. F. oFL.)
Case No. R-3821.-Decided May 25,1942
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
upon pay-roll check.
Mr. Joel Seidman, for the Board.
Mr. R. P. Gavert, of Canton, Ohio, for the Company.
Mr. W. H. Wilson, of Canton, Ohio, for the Union.
Mr. George H. Gentithes, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Upon petition duly filed by International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, Local No. B-1308, A. F. of L., herein called the Union,
alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning
the representation of employees of Westinghouse Electric & Manu-
facturing Company, herein called the Company, engaged in the manu-
facture of naval ordnance at Canton, Ohio, the National Labor
Relations Board provided for an appropriate hearing upon due notice.
On April 23,1942, before a hearing was held, the Company, the Union,
and a representative of the Board entered into a "Stipulation for
Certification Upon Pay-Roll Check."
Pursuant to the stipulation a pay-r611 check by comparison of union
designations with the pay roll of the Company of April 18, 1942,
was made on April 23, 1942, under the supervision of the Regional
Director for the Eighth Region (Cleveland, Ohio) to determine the
number of electrical powerhouse employees at the Company's Canton
Ordnance Division, excluding supervisors, who had designated the
Union as their bargaining agency. On May 6, 1942, the,Regional
Director, acting pursuant to the stipulation- issued and duly served
upon the parties his Consent Pay-Roll Check Report. No objections
to the report had been filed by any of the parties.
41 N. L. R. B., No. 60.
261,
262 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
In his report the Regional Director reported that all four employees
in the foregoing unit whose names appear on the Company's pay
roll of April 18, 1942, had authorized the Union to represent them
for collective bargaining purposes.
Upon - the basis of the stipulation, the Consent Pay-Roll Check
Report and the entire record in the case, the Board makes the
following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. A'question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
Company, Canton, Ohio, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and
Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All electrical powerhouse employees at the Company's Canton
Ordnance Division, excluding supervisors, constitute a unit appro-
priate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within the meaning
of Section 9 (b) of the Act.
3. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No.
B-1308, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been
designated and selected by a majority of the employees in the above
unit as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining
and is the exclusive representative of all the employees in said unit,
within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the Act.
-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,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local No. B-1308, affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor, has been designated and selected by a majority of the
electrical powerhouse employees at the Company's Canton Ordnance
Division, excluding supervisors, as their representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 -(a)
of the Act, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local,
B-1308, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is the
exclusive 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.