Replogle Globes, Inc.

152 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD In addition to the stainless steel foundry, the Employer operates a second foundry in the plant, known as the kirksite foundry, which , insofar as the record discloses , is also inte- grated with the Employer's manufacturing operations. In this foundry molders and general helpers, who also perform the customary functions of foundry employees, produce castings of lead and kirksite. The Petitioner does not seek to repre- sent these employees. It contends, in substance, that their skills are not comparable to those exercised by the employees in the stainless steel foundry. The fact appears, however, that the skills of the molders in the kirksite foundry and those of the molder and coremakers in the stainless steel foundry are basically the same. Indeed, the Employer, when it organized the stainless steel foundry, transferred into that foundry molders from the kirksite foundry. Some of these molders later became supervisors. While it is true that different techniques are employed in the stainless steel foundrybecause of the particular characteristics of stainless steel alloy, it is not disputed that basically the operations in both foundries are alike. Without determining whether all the foundry employees might be severed from the production and maintenance unit, we find that, where, as here, the proposed unit would exclude other foundry employees in the plant possessing comparable skills and interests , apart from other considerations , such a unit is too narrow to warrant separate representation . Accordingly, we shall grant the Machinists ' motion and dismiss the petition. [The Board dismissed the petition.] REPLOGLE GLOBES, INC. and UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Petitioner. Case No. 13 -RC-3556 . November 24, 1953 DECISION AND ORDER Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before Albert Kleen, 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 National Labor Relations Act. 2. The Petitioner is a labor organization claiming to repre- sent certain employees.of the Employer. 3. No question affecting commerce exists concerning the representation 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: 107 NLRB No. 57. MENDELSON-ZELLER CO. 153 The Employer is engaged in the manufacture of visual education equipment at Chicago , Illinois . In April of this year, it began the construction of a new plant at a site 8 miles distant from the present plant. The Employer expects to stop work at its present location in December and to resume opera- tions at its new location sometime after the first of the year. There are approximately 165 workers at the old plant. Approximately 80 percent of these workers livewithin4 blocks of the plant . Fifty percent of the workers are women. The Employer has been informed by foremen at the old plant, who have questioned employees as to their desire to continue to work for the Employer at the new location , that the majority of the employees have expressed the opinion that the new plant is too distant from their homes to permit them to con- tinue their employment after the change in location is effected. Anticipating , therefore , that a large number of its present employees may not wish to transfer , the Employer has set up a personnel office at the new plant to take applications for work. The Employer moves to dismiss the instant petition , urging that, under the circumstances , no election should take place at this time. We find merit in the Employer's position. We are of the opinion that no useful purpose would be served by processing this petition, as too short a time remains when work will be carried on at the present location , and as it is not anticipated that a representative number of the present employees will continue their employment after operations are moved to the new plant . We shall, therefore , dismiss this petition without prejudice to the filing of a new petition when the new plant is in operation and a substantial and representa- tive working force is there employed.' [The Board dismissed the petition.] ICf. Pride Manufacturing Company, 98 NLRB 445. PALMER C. MENDELSON AND EDWARD ZELLER, general partners , and JOE CROSETTI, CARL DOBLER, MRS. OLGA ZELLER, JEANETTE MENDELSON AND LEE ESCHEN, lim- ited partners , a limited partnership , d/b/a MENDELSON- ZELLER CO.' and UNITED FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLE WORKERS LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. 78, CIO, Peti- tioner. Case No. 20-RC-2353. November 24, 1953 DECISION AND ORDER Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before James A. 1 The name of the Employer appears as corrected at the hearing. 107 NLRB No. 55.