General Motors Corp.

In the Matter Of GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (GMC TRUCX & COACH DIVISION), EMPLOYER and DISTRICT #15 OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION OF MACHINISTS, PETITIONER Case No. 2-RC-1600.-Decided January 16, 1950 DECISION AND ORDER Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before Jack Davis, hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-member panel [Chairman Herzog and Members Houston and Reynolds]. 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 organization involved claims to represent employees of the Employer. 3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the representa- tion of employees of the Employer within the meaning of Section 9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act, for the following reasons: The Petitioner seeks to represent a unit of mechanics, excluding all other employees and supervisors, working for the Employer at the New York City Board of Transportation's Building C, 37th Street and First Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. The Employer is engaged at that address in a temporary project repairing and altering 900 new buses delivered to the New York City Board of Transportation between late 1948 and early March 1949. To effect those repairs and altera- tions, the Employer hired the mechanics which the Petitioner seeks to represent. At the hearing, held on November 23, 1949, the Em- ployer contended that this project would be completed on or about March 1, 1950, 2 months from now, while the Petitioner claimed that it would not be finished until about the middle of May 1950. Both 88 NRLB No. 29. 119 120 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD parties agree, however, that in any event the employment of the me- chanics would be at an end when the project was completed. Under these circumstances, we believe that no useful purpose will be served by proceeding with a determination of representatives at the present time.' Accordingly, we shall dismiss the petition. ORDER Upon the basis of the foregoing findings of fact and the entire rec- ord in this case, the National Labor Relations Board hereby orders that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed. 'Parsons Corporation, 86 NLRB 74 ; Weber Showcase and Fixture Company, 85 NLRB 1202; Mastick, Inc., 82 NLRB 927.