Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 29, 1939

15 N.L.R.B. 763 (N.L.R.B. 1939)

IN THE MATTER OF MINNEAPOLIS-MOLINE POWER IMPLEMENT COMPANY
and INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS , LOCAL # 1037, BY
- Dlsnucr LODGE 77 (A. F. OF L.)
Case No. R-1395
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
September $9,1939
On August 23, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled proceeding., On August 31, 1939, the Board issued
an Amendment to Direction of Election.2 The -Direction of Election,
as amended, directed that an election by secret ballot be conducted
within :twenty-two (22) days from.tlie'date of the Direction among
the production employees of Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement
Company at its Hopkins, Minnesota, plant whose names appear on
its pay roll at any time between December 10, 1938, and the pay-
roll period immediately preceding the date of the Direction of
Election, inclusive, including employees who, on the latter date,
were ill or on vacation or were or have since been temporarily laid
off, but excluding clerical and supervisory employees, timekeepers,
assistant foremen, and full-time outside truck drivers engaged in
delivering products outside of the plant, and those employees who
since December 10, 1938, have resigned or been discharged for cause,
to determine whether they desired to be represented by International
Association of Machinists, Local #1037, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, or by United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 1138, affiliated with the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, for the purposes of collective bargaining,
or by neither.
Pursuant to the Direction, as amended, an election by secret ballot
was conducted at Hopkins, Minnesota, on September 14, 1939, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eight-
eenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Full opportunity was af-
forded all parties to the investigation to participate in the conduct
of the secret ballot and to make challenges. On September 16, 1939,
114 N. L. R. B. 920.
214 N. L. R. B. 930.
15 N. L. R. B., No. 79.
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the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
National Labor Relations' Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report on the
ballot. In his report the Regional Director certified that the election
was fairly and impartially conducted and that the ballots cast were
duly and fairly counted under his. supervision, and that there had
been filed with him by the tellers statements to that effect. No ob-
jections or exceptions to 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 number eligible_______________________________________ 612
Total number of ballots cast________________________________ 515
Total number of ballots counted_____________________________ 515
Total number of ballots cast for International Association of
Machinists, Local #1037, affiliated with the American Fed-
eration of Labor----------------------------------------- 184
Total number of ballots cast for United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America, Local No. 1138, affiliated with
the Congress of Industrial Organizations__________________ 315
Total number of ballots cast for neither labor organization____ 16
Total number of blank ballots______________________________ 0
Total number of void ballots________________________________ 0
Total number of challenged ballots------------------------- 0
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re-
lations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8
and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 2,
•IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 1138, affiliated with the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a ma-
jority of the production employees of Minneapolis-Moline Power
Implement Company at its Hopkins, Minnesota, plant, excluding
clerical and supervisory employees, timekeepers, assistant foremen,
and full-time outside truck drivers engaged in delivering products
outside of the plant, as their representative for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section 9
(a) of the National Labor Relations Act, United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of America, Local No. 1138, 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 con-
ditions of employment.