Pacific Trailways

In the Matter of MT. HOOD STAGES , INC., D/B/A PACIFIC TRAILWAYS, EMPLOYER and MT. HOOD LODGE # 1005, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS, PETITIONER and MISCELLANEOUS DRIVERS UNION, LOCAL No. 223, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS , CHAUF- FEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA , AFL, PETITIONER Cases Nos. 36-RC-398 and 36-RC-468.-Decided September 28, 1950 DECISION AND ORDER Upon petitions duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before Lincoln Klaver, hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds : 1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Act. 2. The labor organizations involved claim 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 respective Petitioners seek to represent separate units, in one case (36-RC-398) of all maintenance employees, and in the other (36-RC-458) of all bus drivers. The Intervenor, Division 1055, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, AFL, contends that, because of a bar- gaining history on an over-all basis since 1936, only a unit of both drivers and maintenance employees is appropriate. The Employer is neutral. . The Employer. operates a common carrier bus line over routes in Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. It has about 60 employees, of whom ap- proximately 40 drive busses and the remainder, consisting of mechan- ics, washers, greasers, cleaners, and other maintenance personnel, maintain the busses in shops in Oregon and Idaho. Drivers do no mechanical work except to take care of very minor difficulties that may occur while a bus is on the road. Except in rare instances, me- 91 NLRB No. 98. 559 560 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD chanics drive only to test a bus, or to take a replacement bus to the scene of a breakdown. Drivers and maintenance employees are listed separately for seniority purposes. However, both groups enjoy the same vacation policy and other benefits. In the absence of any bargaining history, the Board has found that separate units of either bus drivers 1 or maintenance employees 2 em- ployed by a bus transportation company may be appropriate. But where, as here, there has been a long history of bargaining for both groups of employees in a single unit, we do not believe it appropriate that the single unit be split into two separate units .3 Accordingly, we shall dismiss the present petitions. ORDER IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petitions filed herein be, and they here- by are, dismissed. MEMBER REYNOLDS took no part in the consideration of the above Decision and Order. I Tennessee Coach Co ., 88 NLRB 253 ; Gate City Transit Lines, 81 NLRB 79. 2 See Gulf Oil Corporation, 79 NLRB 1274 ; Illini Coach Company, 72 NLRB 408. 8 The Wichita Transportation Corporation , 90 NLRB No. 70 ; Lincoln Transit Co., Inc., 47 NLRB 1325.