Aluminum Co. of America

In the Matter of ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA and ALUMINUM WORKERS OF AMERICA, CIO Case No. R-5697 - SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND AMENDED CERTIFICATION January 10,'1944 On August 19, 1943, the National Labor Relations Board issued its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceedings.' In said Decision the Board excluded welders, cutters, and their re- spective helpers employed by the Company from the unit found appro- priate for collective bargaining purposes, without prejudice to a later determination that such employees should be included therein. This disposition was made in view of tho fact that the petition of the United Brotherhood 'of Welders, Cutters, and Helpers of America, Local 42, herein called the United, in Case No. 19-R-1172, filed subsequent to the hearing in the instant proceedings, sought the establishment of the welders, cutters, and their helpers as a separate bargaining unit. On September 29, 1943, following an election, the Board certified Alumi- num Workers of America, Local 38, CIO, as the exclusive bargaining representative of the Company's production and maintenance em- ployees in the unit found appropriate in the instant proceedings, ex- cluding, inter alia, welders, cutters, and their helpers. Thereafter, a hearing was held in Case No. 19-R-t-1172 ; and the Board has this day issued its Decision and Order dismissing the.petition of the United in that case, on the ground that the welders, cutters, and their helpers employed by the Company do not constitute a separate appropriate bargaining unit. As is stated in the Decision and Order in said Case No. 19-R-1172, the Board has concluded upon consideration of the relevant facts that the employees in question should be included in the unit previously found appropriate in the instant proceedings. It further appears that the outcome of the election in the instant pro- ceedings could not have been affected by the votes of the welders, cutters, and their helpers in the Company's employ had such employees 1 51 N. L. R. B. 1442. 54 N. L. R B., No. 69. 452 ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA 453 been included in the unit in the first instance and participated in the election. Accordingly, the Certification in the instant proceedings is hereby amended so as to redefine the appropriate unit by including therein the welders, cutters, and their helpers. AMENDED CERTIFICATION 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 and 10 of National Labor Re- lations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 3, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Aluminum Workers of America, Local 38, CIO,.has been designated and selected by a majority of all produc- tion and maintenance employees of Aluminum Company of America working at the Company's Trentwood Rolling Mills, Trentwood, Washington, including checkers, shipping clerks, receiving clerks, matrons, locker room attendants, welders, cutters, and their respective helpers, but excluding office janitors, fire inspectors, timekeepers, office employees, laboratory employees, leadman, construction workers, guards, and supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of em- ployees, or effectively recommend such action as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Sec- tion 9 (a) of the Act, the aforesaid organization is the exclusive repre- sentative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargain- ing with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment and other conditions of employment. CHAIRMAN MILLIS took no part in the consideration of the above Supplemental Decision and Amended Certification.