Wood Conversion Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 16, 1959

125 N.L.R.B. 785 (N.L.R.B. 1959)

WOOD CONVERSION COMPANY 785
Wood Conversion Company and National Industrial Workers
Union, affiliated with National Independent Union Council,
Petitioner. Case No. 4-RC-3910. December 16, 1959
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before Chester S.
Montgomery, hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board.
The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from preju-
dicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the
National Labor Relations Act.
2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent employees
of the Employer.'
3. The Intervenor, Local 286, International Brotherhood of Pulp,
Sulphite & Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO, urges that its current 2-
year contract, as amended, is a bar to this proceeding. The Petitioner
contends that the contract is not a bar. When the contract was signed
on May 16, 1958, there were but two employees in the plant. At the
time of the hearing on June 24, 1959, there were about 161 employees
in the unit. The contract covers all classifications subsequently filled
by the Employer and was implemented through a number of adjust-
ment committee meetings at the conclusion of which the parties exe-
cuted their agreements as to matters discussed. On May 8, 1959, when
there were about 171 employees in the unit, the contracting parties
executed a "Stipulation," which in effect modified section IV of the
contract, entitled "No Interruption of Work." The Petitioner, in its
brief, argues that, under the rule laid down in General Extrusion
Company, Inc., General Bronze Alwintite Products Corp., 121 NLRB
1165, the contract is not a bar as it was executed at a time when the.
Employer did not have a representative and substantial complement
of employees, that the amendment or amendments thereto, which did
not constitute the execution of a new contract, may not operate to cor-
rect the infirmity of the basic contract, and that the case of Carbide &
Carbon Chemicals Division, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation,
98 NLRB 270, which was not overruled by General Extrusion, sup-
ports its position. We agree with these contentions. Accordingly, we
find that the contract is not a bar. The case of Arvey Corporation
(Transo Envelope Company Division), 122 NLRB 1640, which is in-
consistent herewith, is therefore hereby overruled.
1 In the absence of a stipulation , we find, upon the record , that the Petitioner is a labor
organization within the meaning of the Act. Local 286, International Brotherhood of
Pulp, Sulphite & Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO, intervened on the basis of its contract.
125 NLRB No. 99.
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4. The following employees of the Employer, as stipulated by the
parties, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective
bargaining within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the Act :
All production and maintenance employees of the Employer at its
Riverside, New Jersey, plant, excluding all office clerical employees,
plant clerical employees, salaried employees, watchmen, guards, and
supervisors as defined in the Act.
[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication.]
CHAIRMAN LEEDOM took no part in the consideration of the above
Decision and Direction of Election.
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO
and L . B. Wilson , Inc. (Radio Station WCKY)
Cincinnati Local , American Federation of Television and Radio
Artists, AFL-CIO and L. B. Wilson , Inc. (Radio Station
WCKY). Cases Nos. 9-CC-131 and 9-CC-132. December 17,
1959
DECISION AND ORDER
On August 28, 1958, Trial Examiner Charles L. Ferguson issued
his Intermediate Report in the above-entitled proceeding, finding
that the Respondents had not engaged in and were not engaging in
the unfair labor practices alleged in the complaint and recommending
that the complaint be dismissed in its entirety, as set forth in the
copy of the Intermediate Report attached hereto. Thereafter, the
General Counsel and the Charging Party filed exceptions to the
Intermediate Report; the General Counsel, the Charging Party, and
the Respondents also filed briefs.
The Board has reviewed the rulings made by the Trial Examiner
at the hearing and finds that no prejudicial error was committed.
The rulings are hereby affirmed. The Board has considered the Inter-
mediate Report, the exceptions and briefs, and the entire record in
the case, and hereby adopts only the findings of the Trial Examiner,
but not his conclusions or recommendations.
Introductory statement of facts: The record shows, and the Trial
Examiner found, that the significant evidentiary facts are as
follows : In the summer of 1957 the Respondents, dissatisfied with the
results of their contract negotiations with radio station WCKY,
proceeded to authorize a strike of WCKY's 11 staff announcers, and
to appeal for support to the advertising agencies and sponsors who
125 NLRB No. 85.