Hygrade Food Products Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 28, 1943

52 N.L.R.B. 317 (N.L.R.B. 1943)

In the Matter of HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION and BUTCHERS'
UNION LOCAL 174, AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND BUTCHER
WORKMEN OF NORTH AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. 8-5666
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF RUN-OFF ELECTION
August °8,1943
On July 30, 1943, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-
entitled proceeding., Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an elec-
tion by secret ballot was conducted on August 17, 1943, under the
direction ad supervision of the Regional Director of the Second
Region (New York City). On August 18, 1943, the Regional Di-
rector, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 10, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, pre-
pared and duly served upon the parties an Election Report. No ob-
jections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report were
filed by any other parties herein.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Approximate number of eligible voters--------------------- 612
Total ballots cast---------------------------------- ---- 505
Total ballots challenged----------------------------------- 13
Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 3
Total valid votes counted--------------------------------- 489
Votes cast for United Workmen's Mutual Aid Association__- 144
Votes cast for Butchers' Union Local 174, AFL-------------- 125
Votes cast for Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee,
CIO --------------------------------------------------- 215
Votes cast for None--------------------------------------- 5
The Regional Director, in his Election Report, recommended that
in the event either of the labor organizations receiving the largest
number of ballots request a run-off election, the Board so direct. On
August 20, 1943, Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, by
151 N. L. R. B. 878.
52 N. L. R. B., No. 40.
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31 8 DE.C'LSILONS OF NAIPIONAL LABOR REILATIONS BOIARD
United Packinghouse Workers of America, Local 231-C. I. 0., re-
quested that a run-off election be held between the two labor organi-
zations having the highest vote.
In view of the recently inaugurated Board policy with respect to
run-off elections,' no disposition of the challenged ballots is necessary,
and we shall direct a run-off election, in which the employees will be
given an opportunity to decide whether they desire to be represented
by Packinghouse Workers Organizing, Committee, affiliated with the
Congress of Industrial Organizations, or by United Workmen's Mu-
tual Aid Association, for the purposes of collective bargaining.3
DIRECTION OF RUN-OFF ELECTION
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
and pursuant to Article III, Sections 9, 10, and 11, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, it is
hereby
DIRECTID that, as part of the investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Hygrade Food
Products Corporation, Newark, New Jersey, a run-off election, by
secret ballot shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than
thirty (30) days from the date of this Direction of Run-Off Election,
under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the
Second Region, acting in this matter as agent for the National Labor
Relations Board, and subject to Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of
said Rules and Regulations, among the employees who were eligible
to vote in the election conducted pursuant to the Direction of Election
issued July 30, 1943, and who are employed in an eligible category on
the date of the run-off election, but excluding any employees who have
since quit or been discharged for cause, to determine whether they
desire to be represented by Packinghouse Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or
by United Workmen's Mutual Aid Association, for the purposes of
collective bargaining.
CHAIRMAN MH,LIS took no part in the consideration of the above
Supplemental Decision and Direction of Run-Off Election.
2 National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, Article
III, Section 11, as promulgated August 23, 1943
8 See Rules and Regulations , supra, Article III, Section 11 (c).