Cities Service Gas Co.

In the Matter Of CITIES SERVICE GAS CO and INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERA- Tioi^ OF LABOR Case No. R-3713 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES July 10, 1942, f-On June 3, 1942, the National. Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Election 1 in the above-entitled pioceeding Pursuant to the Direction of Elec- tion, an election by secret ballot was conducted on June 24, 25, and 26, 1942, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City, Missouri) On June 27, 1942, the Regional Director, acting puisuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued an Election Report, copies of which were duly served upon the parties. No objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the_ balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director reported as follows Total on eligibility list------------------------------------- 239 Total ballots cast------------------------------------------ 220 Total ballots challenged------------------------------------ 2 Total blank ballots----------------------------------------- 0 Total void ballots------------------------------------------ 0 Total talid Notes counted----------------------------------- Votes cast for International Union of Operating Engineers, 218 affiliated with the American Federation of Labor----------- 144 Votes cast against International Union of Operating Engineers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor---------- 74 Since the challenged ballots cannot affect the results of the election, we deem it unnecessary to pass upon the challenges By viltue 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, 141 N L R B 648 42NLRB,No72 307 308 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Union of Operating En- gineers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees at the com- pressor-stations of Cities Service Gas Co, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, nricludmg engineers, A. S Graves, and M. E Benton, but excluding superintendents, supervisory employees, junior engineers, matrons, timekeepers, repair and machine shop foremen, office managers, tem- porary employees, and Foreman L L Baker, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Sec- tion 9 (a) of the Act, International Union of Operating Engineers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, 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 I It_ "r. { it