Wilson & Co., Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Feb 4, 1942

38 N.L.R.B. 923 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of WILSON & Co., INC. and PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE , LoCAL No. 20, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O.
Case No. R-3035
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 4, 194
On December 24, 1941, 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 January 14, 1942,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Seventeenth Region (Kansas City, Missouri). On January 15,
1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended, issued an Election Report, copies of which were
duly served upon the parties. No objections to the conduct of the
ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total on eligibility list--- ---------------- 1555
Total ballots cast---------------------------------------- 1428
Total ballots challenged ----------------------------------- 23
Total blank ballots ---------------------- ------------------ None
Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 4
Total valid votes counted --------------------------------- 1401
Votes cast for Employees ' Representative Committee--_---- 498
Votes cast for Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee,
Local No. 20, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations------------------------------------------- 886
Votes cast for Neither------------------------------------ 17
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, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and
9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended,
' 37 N. L R B 944.
38 N. L. R. B., No. 165.
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924 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Packinghouse Workers Organizing
Committee, Local No. 20, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all
production and maintenance employees of Wilson & Co., Inc., at its
Kansas City, Kansas, plant, including plant checkers, but excluding
plant clerks, supervisors, foremen, assistant foremen, watchmen,
superintendents, office workers, department clerks, wholesale-market
employees, and truck drivers, as their representative for the purposes
of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the
National Labor Relations Act, Packinghouse Workers Organizing
Committee, Local No. 20, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, 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.