General Electric Co.

In the Matter of GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, BRIDGEVILLE GLASS WORKS, EMPLOYER and AMERICAN FLINT GLASS WORKERS' UNION, AFFILIATED WITH A. F. L., PETITIONER Case No. 6 R-13.45.-Decided September 10, 1946 Mr. B. G. Greenman, of Bridgeville, Pa., for the Employer. Mr. Albert Vottero, of Toledo, Ohio, for the Petitioner. Mr. Walter Mug f ord, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Intervenor. Mrs. Catherine 1Y. Goldman, of counsel to the Board. DECISION . AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Upon a petition, duly filed, hearing in this case was held at Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, on August 5, 1946, before Henry Shore, Trial Examiner. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. At the hearing, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0., herein called the Intervenor, -moved to intervene, and the motion was granted. Upon the entire record in the case, the National Labor Relations Board makes the following : FINDINGS OF FACT I. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYER General Electric Company, a New York corporation engaged in the manufacture and distribution of a wide variety,of electrical pro- ducts, operates plants in several States, including a plant at Bridge- ville, Pennsylvania. -At its Bridgeville plant, the only'plant involved in this proceeding, the Employer is engaged in the manufacture of glass bulbs and tubing for radios, lamps, and other electrical equip- ment. During the 12-month period preceding July 1946, the Employer used at its Bridgeville plant raw materials with a value in excess of $1,000,000, of which approximately 95 percent originated outside the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During the same period the Em- plover manufactured at the Bridgeville plant more than 16,000,000 70 N. L. R. B., No 127. 1309 0 1310 DECISIONS' OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD pounds of finished products, all of which was shipped outside the Commonwealth. The Employer admits and we find that it is engaged in commerce- within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. II. THE ORGATNIZATIONS INVOLVED • The Petitioner is a labor organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, claiming to represent employees of the Employer. The Intervenor is a labor organization affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, claiming to represent employees of the Employer. III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION The Employer refuses to recognize either the Petitioner or the In- tervenor as the exclusive bargaining representative of employees of the Employer until certified by the Board in an appropriate unit. We find that a question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the representation of employee's of the Employer, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act. IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT We find, substantially in accordance with a stipulation of the, parties,' that all production and maintenance employees of the Employer at its Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, plant, including cafeteria employees, boiler firemen-watchmen, quality checkers, and lead women, but ex- eluding office employees, foremen, master mechanic, chief electrician, and all other supervisory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of em- ployees, or effectively recommend such action, constitute a ,unit ap- propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the mean- ing of Section 9 (b) of the Act. DIRECTION OF ELECTION As part of the investigation to ascertain representatives for, the purposes of collective bargaining with General Electric Company, Bridgeville Glass Works, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, an election by secret ballot shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than thirty (30) days from the date of this Direction, under the direction ,and supervision of the Regional Director for the Sixth Region, acting in this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and- subject to Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of National Labor Rela- tions Board Rtiles and Regulations-Series 3, as amended, among the 11 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY ' 1311 employees in the unit found appropriate in. Section IV, above, who were employed during the pay-roll period immediately preceding the date of this Direction, including employees who did not work during said pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation or temporarily laid off, and including employees in the armed forces of the United States who present themselves in person at the polls, but excluding those employees who have, since quit or been discharged for cause and have not been rehired or reinstated prior to the date of the election, to determine whether they desire to be represented by American Flint Glass Workers' Union, affiliated with A. F. L., or by. United Electricalf Radio &,' Machine Workers of America, C. I. 0., for the purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither. MR. JAMES J. REYNOLDS, JR., took no part in the consideration of the above Decision and Direction of Election.