Arnelle of California

986 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Arnelle of California and International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union , Petitioner. Case 20-RC- 12475 May 13, 1975 DECISION ON REVIEW AND ORDER BY MEMBERS JENKINS, KENNEDY, AND PENELLO On January 6, 1975, the Regional Director for Re- gion 20 issued his Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding in which he found that the cutters and sample cutters constituted a separate appropriate craft bargaining unit. Thereafter, the Employer, in accordance with Sec- tion 102.67 of the National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations, Series 8, as amended, filed a timely request for review of the Regional Director's decision, contending, inter alia, that the Regional Di- rector departed from Board precedent in finding the unit of cutters appropriate here inasmuch as they do not perform the highly skilled functions of preparing markers for marking. Petitioner filed an opposition to the request for review. By telegraphic Order dated January 29, 1975, the National Labor Relations Board granted the request for review and stayed the election pending decision on review. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Na- tional Labor Relations Board has delegated its au- thority in this proceeding to a three-member panel. The Board has considered the entire record in this proceeding, including the documents of the parties, with, respect to the issues under review, and makes the following findings: The Employer is a California corporation engaged in the manufacture of women's clothing. Its basic manu- facturing operation consists of designing the women's apparel, fabricating patterns from the designs, making samples, cutting fabric, and shipping the cut fabric to subcontractors for sewing and pressing, after which the garments are returned to the Employer for packaging and shipping. We agree with the contention of the Employer that the cutters and sample cutters involved herein do not exercise the skills which the Board has required to warrant finding them a separate and distinct craft bar- gaining unit. As the Board explained in Newburgh Mfg. Co. Inc., 151 NLRB 763 (1965), cutters who perform the highly skilled function of "preparation of markers" or "marking" may be represented separately in a craft unit. The record in the instant cases does not affirma- tively show that the cutters sought perform the highly skilled functions of preparation of markers or marking. Rather, the record shows that such skills are performed by a group of patternmakers, not sought by Petitioner. As Petitioner does not seek a broader unit herein, we shall dismiss the petition. ORDER It is hereby ordered that the petition herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed. 217 NLRB No. 163