Kennecott Copper Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 21, 1943

52 N.L.R.B. 42 (N.L.R.B. 1943)

In the Matter Of KENNECOTT COPPER CORPORATION, NEVADA MINES DI-
VISION and INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL & SMELTER WORK-
ERS, C. I. 0., FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF ITS RUTH MINERS UNION,
LOCAL No. 124
In the Matter of KFNNECOTT COPPER CORPORATION, NEVADA MINES Di-
VISION and INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL & SMELTER WORK-
ERS, C. I. 0., FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF ITS STEPTOE MILL AND
SMELTERMEN'S UNION,, LOCAL No. 233
Cases Nos. R-5381 and R-5382, respectively
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND
ORDER
August 21, 1943
On August 7, 1943, the National Labor Relations Board issued a
Decision, Direction of Elections, and Order in the above-entitled
proceeding.' Upon further clarification as to the units proposed to
'be appropriate by International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron
Shipbuilders, Welders and Helpers of America, Local No. 490, A. F.
of L.; International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 3,
A. F. of L.; and International Hod Carriers, Building and Common
Laborers Union, Construction and General Laborers Local Union
No. 1339, A. F. of L., and upon agreement of all the parties, the re-
quests for the amendment of the voting units in the manner set forth
below are hereby granted.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Direction of Elections be, and the
same hereby is, amended by striking therefrom voting groups (5),
(11), and (12), and substituting therefor the following voting groups
respectively :
(5) All employees performing the work of boilermakers, boiler-
maker helpers, head layer outers, layer outers, rivet heaters, riveters,
sheet metal workers and helpers, tinners, steel car repairmen, weld-
ers of the trade, including repairmen, handymen, repair helpers, pow-
erhouse repair helpers, and the repairman operating a punch and
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shear machine, but excluding foremen, subforemen, and car walkers,
to determine whether they desire to be represented by International-
Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of
America, Local No. 490, A. F. of L., or by C. I. 0., International Union
of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, Locals 124 and 233, for the purposes
of collective bargaining, or by neither;
(11) All employees performing the work of auxiliary engineers,
boiler room engineers, and extra engineers in the power plant; ice
plant engineers; oilers; assistants; helpers; waste boiler tenders; cast-
ing machine operators; reverberatory department operators; coal mill
operators; cottrell operators; precipitation operators; tractor drivers
and operators; dragline engineers; gas shovel operators; crane engi-
neers; crane firemen; dinky engineers; dinky switchmen; mill and
feeder operators; car dumpers; motormen; crusher operators; flota-
tion operators; filter operators; converter department operators; fur-
nace helpers; feedermen; feedermen helpers; skimmers; tappers;
rollmen; dumper and feeder carman; xanthate operator; ball ma-
chinemen ; molding machinemen; punchers ; electric shovel operators ;
second engineers; churn drill operators; prospect drill operators; drill
helpers; steam crane engineers and firemen; track shifter operators;
mine motormen; mine motormen helpers; ore hoist engineers; com-
pressor engineers; man hoist engineers; stationary boiler engineers
and firemen; precipitation plant engineers; and engineers and fire-
men; including feedermen of the reverberatory department; feeder
carmen of the material handling and storage department; repairmen;
handymen; and helpers, but excluding foremen and subforemen, to
determine whether they desire to be represented by International
Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 3, A. F. of L., or by C. I. O.,
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, Locals 124 and
233, for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither; and
(12) All remaining production, construction, and maintenance em-
ployees, including hourly paid samplers, but excluding executives,
superintendents, general foremen, assistant general foremen, foremen,
subforemen, assistant drill foremen, general powder foremen, assist-
ant powder foremen, shift bosses, shaft bosses, stope and level bosses,
mucker bosses, technical and professional employees, gas chemist,
assistants, dairy employees, dairy field employees, clerical employees,
commissary clerks, salaried samplers, Harry Haaser, F. M. Cork,
employees in the watchmen's unit heretofore found to be a separate
appropriate unit, employees for whom International Association of
Machinists, Local No. 279, is the certified collective bargaining repre-
sentative, and employees covered by the contracts between Brother-
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hood of Locomotive Engineers and Switchmen's Union of North
America, and, the Company, to determine whether they desire to be
represented by International Union of Hod Carriers, Building and
Common Laborers Union of America, Construction and General
Laborers Local Union No. 1339, A. F. of L., or by C. I. 0., Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, Locals 124 and 233,
for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither.
CHAIRMAN Mu.LIs took no part in the consideration of the above
Supplemental Decision and Order.
[See infra, 52 N. L. R. B. 1397 for Second Supplemental Decision
and Certification of Representatives.]