Georgia-Pacific Corp.

946 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD If employees have any question concerning this notice or compliance with its pro- visions, they may communicate directly with the Board's Regional Office, 6617 Fed- eral Office Building, 515 Rusk Avenue, Houston, Texas, Telephone No. Capitol 8-0611, Extension 4271. APPENDIX B 1. Donald L. Alsobrooks 22. Jerry C. Hairgrove 44. Lyt M. Pape 2. Gene E. Ansley 23. Eunice E Hale 45. Granville B. Powell, Jr. 3. Robert C. Baxter 24. Pete M. Harris 46. Troy L. Rawls 4. Jerry W. Broccolo 25. James A. Hibler 47. Joseph J. Raymond 5. Herbert R. Broussard 26. Charles D. Hoover 48. Olie B. Reaves 6. Douglas C. Brown 27. Carl W. James 49. James K. Simmons 7. Jerry W. Brown 28. Edwin A. Keely 50. George A. Smith 8. Jodie Brown 29. Clifton E. Kelley 51. Ralph C. Smith 9. Jones H. Byrd 30. Alois E Kohut 52. Alvin Sofka 10. Dennis E. Cain 31. Woodrow L. Lahrmann 53. Lee R. Sorrels 11. Howard D. Campbell 32. Larry L. Langham 54. Mack Strain 12. Joseph S. Caswell 33. Kenneth L. McHenry 55. Elroy A. Tesch 13. Tex W Cloud 34. Floyd C. Mathews 56. Jimmie D. Tillie 14. James A. Douglas 35. Charles W. Matlock 57. George G. Tinnin 15. Glenn B. Edgeman 36. Emanuel P. Maywald 58. Innis Wagner, Jr. 16. Arthur M. Fedrick 37. Noah T. Melton 59. Melvin W Whitlock 17. Lonnie M. Fedrick 38. Elroy 0 Michael 60. Terry S. Williams 18. Teddy R. Fitchner 39. Jimmy H. Montgomery 61. Daniel M. Wolff 19. Alfred C. Gloyna 40. Arthur T. Nix 62. Willie F. Wolff, Jr. 20. Cletus J. Goetz 41. Jerry L. Odneal 63. John M. Woodson 21. Alexander A. Gutowski 42. Pete P. Ognoskie 64. Eddie R. Zwernemann 43. John H. Owen APPENDIX C 1. General E. Alsobrooks 9 Charles S. Le Cara 17. Billy J. Phillips 2. David T. Buchanan 10. Louis Manchack 18. Buren E . Risinger 3. Edmund Duve 11. Tommy R. McSwain 19. Paul R. Rush 4. Woodrow Duve 12. Glenn A. Moore 20. Karl D . Strain 5. Ernest R. Eggert 13. Albert L. Ognoskie 21. Zack Strain 6. William C. Herrin 14. Robert L. Parrott 22. Lloyd Tully 7. Jerry W. Kelley 15. Raymond W. Pawlik 23. Roscoe Wells 8. Johnnie Ketchey 16. Alex J. Perez APPENDIX D 1. Alfred A. Baack 5. Lee R. Kubecka 9. Perry Thomas 2. Andrew S. Duncan 6. Harold D. Lebeck 10. D. A. Weiss 3. Charles D. Felchak 7. Joe E. Stzelecke 11. Eddie J. Zientek 4. James C. Followell 8. Jerry P. Patterson Georgia-Pacific Corporation and Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers, Petitioner Georgia-Pacific Corporation and Local No. 482, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Petitioner Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Paper Division, Samoa, Petitioner and International Brotherhood of Pulp , Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO. Cases Nos. 20-RC-6507, -0O-RC-6544, and £O-RM-769. January 17,1966 DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Upon separate petitions duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended , a consolidated hearing 156 NLRB No. 92. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION 947 was held before Hearing Officer Kenneth Hecht. The Hearing Officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the Act, the National Labor Relations Board has delegated its powers in connection with these cases to a three-member panel [Chairman McCulloch and Mem- bers Brown and Zagoria]. Upon the entire record in these cases, including the briefs,' the Board finds : 1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Act. 2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent certain employees of the Employer.2 3. Questions affecting commerce exist concerning the representa- tion of certain employees of the Employer within the meaning of Sections 9(c) (1) and 2(6) and (7) of the Act. 4. The Employer processes, manufactures, and sells lumber and lumber products. Its recently constructed pulp and paper mill, the, only plant involved herein, is located at ,Samoa, California, on the same site as the Employer's redwood lumber mill and plywood mill. There is no bargaining history at the pulp and paper mill. The Association and the Employer have requested, an election in an overall unit of production and maintenance employees, which they contend is the only unit appropriate on the basis of the integrated nature of the operation and the pattern of bargaining on such basis in that area. Local 482 seeks elections in separate units of maintenance electricians and recovery steampower group employees. International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO, herein referred to as the International, does not, oppose the units sought by Local 482. The Association and the International desire to appear on the ballots in any election directed, but Local 482 does not desire to appear on the ballot in the election among the production and maintenance employees. The recovery steampower group consists of about 46 employees, 12 in the powerhouse, a separate facility located near the two lumber mills, and 34 in the recovery area in the pulp and paper mill here involved. The employees in the powerhouse are engaged exclusively in the production of power, supplying the two lumber mills as well as I Briefs were filed by the Employer , the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Work- ers, herein referred to as the Association , and Local No. 482, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, herein referred to as Local 482. 2 At the hearing, all the labor organizations were granted leave to intervene in the cases in which they were not already parties. 217-919-66-v of 156-61 948 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD the pulp and paper mill. The employees in the recovery area are similarly engaged, supplying power to the two lumber mills, and producing about 70 percent of the steam requirements for the pulp and paper mill. The employees in the recovery area are also engaged in the recovery of spent chemicals from the production process. Thus, the production process produces spent chemicals which, after going through an evaporation process, are fired into two recovery boilers. These boilers heat the spent chemicals in order to burn off the residue thereby producing waste heat which is used in the production process and also in the production of electrical power. The spent chemicals are recovered from the boilers and processed through a chemical reactivation process. The reactivated chemicals are then automatically returned to the first step of the production process, thereby com- pleting a continuous cycle. Both the chemical recovery and power production operations are interdependent and necessary for the con- tinuous production process. The recovery steampower group employees work under the imme- diate supervision of the recovery steampower group foreman and of the power recovery lead operator, who goes back and forth between the powerhouse and the recovery area. A power boiler fireman is in charge of the powerhouse. There is a fixed pattern of job progression within the recovery steampower group. A new employee in the group begins either in the powerhouse or in the recovery area as a general helper or utilityman, and progresses through a series of about 12 jobs to that of recovery lead operator, the highest job in the recovery steampower group. Some of the 12 jobs are located in the powerhouse and others in the recovery area, so that the progression involves working at times in the powerhouse and at others in the recovery area. It is apparent, from the foregoing and the entire record, that the recovery steampower group employees who work in the powerhouse comprise a functionally distinct group to whom the Board customarily grants separate representation. Their functions, performed in the powerhouse, are similar to those performed by the employees in the recovery area. Both groups of employees share the same supervision, which is separate from that of other departments. They have a common pattern of job progression, which involves work in both the powerhouse and the recovery area, but involves no interchange with employees in other departments. Under all the circumstances, we find that all the recovery steampower group employees, including those in the powerhouse and those in the recovery area, constitute a func- tionally distinct powerhouse department, appropriate for representa- tion in a unit by themselves .3 8 Whippany Paper Board Company, Inc., 119 NLRB 1615. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION 949 The 10 maintenance electricians are part of the maintenance depart- ment, which is under the general supervision of the maintenance department superintendent. While most of the maintenance depart- ment employees work under the supervision of general maintenance foremen, the maintenance electricians work under the immediate supervision of an electrical supervisor and an electrical foreman.4 Most or all of these maintenance electricians were journeymen with experience in this industry before they were hired by the Employer, and they were hired on the basis of such experience. Although these .maintenance electricians occasionally work alongside other mainte- nance employees on problems involving more than one trade, their work is confined to electrical maintenance and repairs. They are required in the performance of their duties to be familiar with the maintenance of motors, generators, electronic controls, and other electrical equipment. If, for example, an electrical motor were to burn out, a maintenance electrician would determine the cause, and either repair or replace the motor. A maintenance electrician is also respon- sible for the electrical work required for instrument installation. In view of the foregoing and the entire record, particularly the facts that the maintenance electricians are separately supervised by electrical supervisors, perform only electrical duties, and are journey- men hired on the basis of experience in electrical maintenance work, we find that these electricians constitute a homogeneous group of skilled craftsmen, appropriate for representation in a unit by them- selves.5 In determining in this case the character and scope of the unit or units that will assure employees here involved the fullest freedom in exercising their Section 7 rights, we have considered the evidence regarding the integration of the Employer's new operation and the plantwide pattern of bargaining in the area, together with all other relevant factors. Upon our appraisal of all the circumstances, includ- ing the absence of a bargaining history in the plant here involved on a more inclusive basis, we find the craft and departmental units above described may be appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining if the employees involved desire separate representation.' In view of our determination that the recovery steampower group employees and the maintenance electricians may constitute separate units if they so desire, and as a production and maintenance unit' is 4 We find, in accord with the Employer's contention at the hearing, and contrary to that of Local 482, that Christianson is a supervisor within the meaning of the Act as he can effectively recommend hire and discharge of employees. 6 Griffin Wheel Company, 119 NLRB 336. 6 Ketchskan Pulp Company, 115 NLRB 279, 281. 7 This unit description is set forth in accord with the Employer's petition rather than the Association's petition as it is more nearly in conformity with the 'Board' s usual terminology. 950 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD a normal unit appropriate for purposes of collective bargaining, we shall make no final unit determination at this time, but shall direct separate elections by secret ballot among the following employees at the Employer's Samoa, California, pulp and paper mill: (a) All production and maintenance employees, excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, recovery steampower group employees, maintenance electricians, guards, and all supervisors as defined in the Act. (b) All recovery steampower group employees, including those in , the powerhouse and those in the recovery area, excluding all other employees, guards, and all supervisors as defined in the Act. (c) All maintenance electricians, excluding all other employees, guards, and all supervisors as defined in the Act. If a majority of the employees in voting groups (b) or (c) vote for Local 482, they will be taken to have indicated their desire to con- stitute a separate bargaining unit, and the Regional Director con- ducting the elections is hereby instructed to issue a certificate of representatives to Local 482 for such unit or units, which the Board under the circumstances finds to be appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining. If, in those circumstances, a majority of the employees in voting group (a) elect to be represented by either the Association or the International, then the Regional Director is instructed to issue a certification of representatives for a separate unit of production and maintenance employees, which the Board under the circumstances finds to be appropriate for purposes of col- lective bargaining. However, if a majority of the employees in voting group (b) or (c) do not vote for Local 482, such group or groups will appropriately be included in the unit with the employees in voting group (a) and their votes will be pooled with those of voting group (a) .8 The Regional Director conducting the election is instructed to issue a certification of representatives to either the Association or the Inter- national if selected by a majority of the employees in the pooled group, which the Board in such circumstances finds to be appropriate for purposes of collective bargaining. [Text of Direction of Elections omitted from publication.] 8 Pooled votes shall be tallied as follows : Votes for Local 4'82 shall be counted as valid votes, but neither for nor against the Association or the International All other votes are to be accorded their face value, whether for representation by the Association, the International , or for no union.