The Cudahy Packing Co.

In the Matter of THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY and PACKING- HOUSE WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, LOCAL, 55A, AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O. Case No. B-3566 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 1942 On April 3, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on May 1, 1942, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota). On May 2, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pur- suant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as. amended, issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report on the ballot. No ob- jections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows : - Total on eligibility list---------------------------------/ 89 Total ballots cast-------------------------------------- 73 Total ballots challenged________________________________ 1 Total blank ballots-------------------------------------- ' none Total void ballots-------------------------------------- none Total. valid vates5counted_------------------------------- 73 (sic) Votes cast for Packinghouse Workers Organizing Com- mittee, Loear55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0------------- 45 Fotes'cast against Packinghouse Workers Organizing Com- mittee, Local 55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0------------ 27 By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela- tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, 1 40 N L R B 168 41 N. L. 1l B . No 32. 157 158 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Packinghouse 11Torkers Organizing Committee, Local 55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0., has been desig- nated and selected by a majority of all office and clerical employees and salaried plant clerks of The Cudahy Packing Company, New- port,- Minnesota, including employees of the. timekeeping,. book keeping and tabulation, accounts payable, transportation, credit, order, and loss and gain departments, the direct livestock, office- and the sales, invoice, beef and provision desks; stenographers (including the credit manager's stenographer, but not those of the general man- ager, the plant 'superintendent, or the office manager) ; comptometer, ditto machine, telegraph, and telephone operators; the yardmaster; livestock clerks (including one in South St. Paul) ; employment office and claim clerks; plant clerks on office pay roll; messengers; mail boys, and the office janitor, but excluding executives, department superintendents, plant foremen, and office supervisory employees; the general manager,` the plant superintendent, and the office manager,. and their stenographers; the manager of the beef and provision desks and of the transportation and credit departments; the assistant manager of the'beef desk, assistant' office manager, and assistant sales manager;' draftsmen, watchmen, salesmen, cafeteria employees, time- study men,, supply clerk (working in plant), the car route man„ livestock buyers, and persons employed on special construction proj- ects; employees for whom Local 55 of the same international organi- zation has been certified by the Board as exclusive bargaining agent; engineers, firemen and helpers, for whom Local 55 has been recog- nized as exclusive bargaining agent by the Company, all assistant department superintendents, -the heads of -timekeeping,' accounts pay- able, invoicing, -bookkeeping, plant clerks, and direct livestock, as their "representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9' (a)_ of the Act, Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, Local 55A, affiliated with the C. I. 0.-,- is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.