RCA OMS, Inc.

228 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD RCA OMS, Inc. (Greenland) and International Broth- erhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 1547, Petitioner. Case 19-RC-6366 March 6, 1973 DECISION AND ORDER BY MEMBERS FANNING, KENNEDY, AND PENELLO Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, a hearing was held before Hearing Officer Dale C. Perman. The Employer and Petitioner have filed briefs in support of their respective positions. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the National Labor Relations Board has delegated its authority in this proceeding to a three-member panel. The Board has reviewed the Hearing Officer's rulings made at the hearing and finds that they are free from prejudicial error. They are hereby affirmed. Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds: Operation and Maintenance Service, Inc., is a subsidiary of RCA Corporation and is a Delaware corporation which annually receives revenues and makes purchases in excess of $50,000 across state lines. The parties stipulated that the Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Act. The Petitioner seeks to represent certain employees of the Employer at five Distant Early Warning 1 Benz v Compama Naviera Hddago, S A, 353 U S 138 (DEW line) sites located in Greenland. The Employ- er moved that the petition be dismissed on the ground that the Board does not have jurisdiction over employers doing business in Greenland. Greenland is a Danish possession governed as a Danish county. The Employer, pursuant to a United States Government contract, operates the DEW line in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. The DEW line is a system of radar stations and a communications network that feeds information directly back to NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colora- do. The employees in Alaska and Canada are presently organized pursuant to United States and Canadian law, respectively. The employees in the Danish segment are unorganized. DEW line employees are required to have a United States Government security clearance, are hired in the United States and paid from the United States, and upon completion of their jobs are returned to their original hiring location in the United States. Under all the relevant circumstances, particularly the fact that Greenland is a possession of Denmark and governed as a county of that country, we conclude that Greenland does not come within the jurisdiction of the Act.' Accordingly, we shall grant the Employer's motion and dismiss the petition. ORDER It is hereby ordered that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed. 202 NLRB No. 42