Green Top & Yellow Cab, Inc.

In the Matter of GREEN Tor & YELLOW CAB, INC., EMPLOYER and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WARE- HOUSEMEN & HELPERS OF AMERICA, AFL, Bus; SALES, TRUCK DRIVERS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS LOCAL UNION No. 637, PETITIONER Case No. 8-RC-665.-Decided August 30,1950 DECISION AND ORDER Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act; a hearing was held before John H. Garver, 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 Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-mem- ber panel [Members Houston, Reynolds, and Murdock]. Upon the entire record in this case, the Board makes the following : The business of the Employer The Employer is engaged in the operation of the sole taxicab service in and' about Zanesville, Ohio. It operates a total of 27 taxicabs driven by approximately 56 drivers. The area around Zanesville contains a population of approximately 50,000 and includes various industrial plants manufacturing transformers, farm implements, and porcelain and steel products. The Employer's gross income received for 1949 totaled approximately $260,000. The Employer's cabs made no out-of-State trips. Trips are made to and from various hotels, bus stations, the.Balti- more and Ohio Railroad station, and the municipal airport, which is located about 5 miles outside the city. No cabs regularly meet any busses, trains, or airplanes and all trips to such terminals are made pursuant to independent requests and calls for service. Lass than 1 percent of the cab service is to and from the railroad station and the bus stations. During the year 1949 the Employer purchased gasoline amounting in value to approximately $27,000,- of which amount ap- proximately 50 percent was purchased from the Texaco Company and. 91 NLRB No. 18. 95 96 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD the remainder from local dealers. The Employer uses Chevrolet automobiles which it purchases from dealers within the State. The Employer's expenditures during this same period for oil, tires, tubes, accessories, and repairs amounted to approximately $44,000. The Employer operates a short wave radio system, licensed by .the Fed- eral Communications Commission, to communicate with its cabs. The Employer estimates the annual life of a cab at 4 years. u While we believe that the Employer's business is not entirely unre- lated to interstate commerce we are of the opinion that its operations are essentially local in character and that to assert jurisdiction in this case would not effectuate the policies of the Act., Accordingly, we shall dismiss the petition. ORDER IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed. 1 Brooklyn Cab Corporation, 90 NLRB 1898; Skyview Transportation Co., et al., 90 NLRB 1895 ; Yellow Cab Company of California, 90 NLRB 1884. .