Standard & Poor's Corp.

In the Matter of STANDARD & POOR'S CORPORATION and NEWSPAPER GUILD OF NEW YORK In the Matter of STANDARD & POOR'S CORPORATION and STANDARD & POOR'S INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION Cases Nos R-3783 and R-3784, respectively CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES July 7, 1942 On May 27, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued its Decision and Direction of Elections in the above-entitled pi oceedings.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, separate elections by secret, ballot were conducted on June 16, 1942, under the direction and super- vision of the Regional Director for the Second Region (New York City). On June 19, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Seises 2, as amended, issued an Elections Report, copies of which were duly seived upon the parties No objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Elections Report have been filed by any of the parties As to the balloting and the iesults thereof, the Regional Director i eported as follows. Edrtoiial Employees Total on eligibility list___________________________________ Total ballots cast________________________________________ Total ballots challenged __________________________________ Total blank ballots___ ____________________________________ Total void ballot, --------------------------________------ Total ialid cotes counted_________________________________ Total (ast tm Ne N% sp.ipei Guild of Ne" York_______________ Total cast for Staiidaid & Pooi s Independent Association__ Votes cast foi neither union ______________________________ 155 144 0 0 0 144 81 60 3 Mailing and Distribution Employees Total on eligibility list___________________________________ 75 Total ballots cast---------------------------------------- 63 Total ballots challenged__________________________________ 0 Total blank ballots_______________________________________ 0 Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 0 Total valid cotes counted_________________________________ 113 Votes cast foi Newspaper Guild of New Yoi k- ------------ 46 Votes cast foi Standard & Pow s Independent Association__ 13 Votes cast for neither union______________________________ 4 41 N L R B 373 42 N r, R B, No 33 116 STANDARD & POOR IS CORPORATION 117 The Remaining Employees Total on eligibility list------------------------------------ 193 Total ballots cast________________________________________ 161 Total ballots challenged___________________________________ 9 Total blank ballots--------------------------------------- 6 Total void ballots ---------------------------------------- 0 Total valid cotes counted_________________________________ 146 Votes cast for Standard & Poor's Independent Association__ 123 Votes cast against aforementioned union__________________ 23 Since the challenged ballots in the election in the last mentioned unit cannot affect the result of the election, we find it unnecessary to pass upon the challenges 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, IT is HEREBY CERTIFIED that Newspaper Guild of New York, of American Nei;spaper Guild, affiliated with the Congress of Indus- trial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all editorial employees at the New York office of Standard & Poor's Corporation, New York City, including temporary employees replacing those presently in the armed forces, but excluding super- visory and confidential employees, and seasonal employees, as their i epresentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Newspaper Guild of New York, of American Newspaper Guild, affiliated with the Congress of In- dustrial Organizations, is the exclusive representative of all such em- ployees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employ- ment. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Newspaper Guild of New York, of American Newspaper Guild, affiliated with the Congress of Indus- trial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all mailing and distribution employees, central files, library, and Raiteri statistical employees at the New York office of Standard & Poor's Corporation, New York City, including breakdown employees and temporary employees replacing those presently in the armed forces, but excluding supervisory and confidential employees, and seasonal employees, as their representative for the purposes of col- lective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Newspaper Guild of New York, of American Newspaper Guild, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the ex- clusive 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 118 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Standard & Poor's Independent Asso- ciation has been designated and selected by a majority of all remaining employees at the New York office of Standard & Poor's Corporation, New York City, including temporary employees " re- placing those presently in the armed forces, but excluding super- visory and confidential employees, and seasonal employees, as their representative' for the purposes=of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a), of the Act, Standard & Poor's Independent Association is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective baigaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.