Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.

In the Matter of VA1L-BALLOU PRESS, INC., and BINGHAMTON PRINT- ING PRESSMEN'S AND ASSISTANTS ' UNION No. 57, I. P. P. AND A. U., OF BINGHAMTON , N. Y., and BINGIAMTON TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 232 In the Matter of VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., and BINGHAMTON PRINT- ING PRESSMEN 'S AND ASSISTANTS ' UNION No. 57, I. P. P. AND A. U., OF BINGHAMTON, N. Y. In the Matter Of VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., and BINGHAMTON TYPO- GRAPHICAL UNION, No. 232 Cases Nos. C-899, R-8?1, and R-822 respectively AMENDED DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS July 18, 1940 On June 28, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Notice to all parties that on July 10, 1940, or as soon thereafter as convenient , the Board , unless sufficient cause to the contrary should have been shown , would issue an Amended Direction of Elections providing for a secret ballot among two groups of employees of Vail-Ballou Press , Inc., Binghamton, New York, herein called the Company . On July 5, 1940, Binghamton Typo- graphical Union, No. 232 , herein called the Union , wrote to the Regional Director , requesting that the Board exclude from the per- sons eligible to vote in election (a) to be conducted pursuant to the above-mentioned Notice persons hired by the Company since the hearing in these cases and executives' wives who, the Union alleges, are on the Company's pay roll but perform work at home rather than at the plant. No other objections to the proposed Amended Direction of Elections have been received. We find no merit in the reasons advanced for the exclusion of persons - hired by the Company since the hearing. Nothing in the record of these cases , moreover , bears out the Union 's assertion that the Company 's pay roll includes executives' wives who perform work at home. However, we• hereby instruct the Regional Director, if the right of executivesr wives to vote is challenged, to segregate their ballots in sealed containers pending disposition of them by the Board. 25 N. L. R B., No. 73 619 620 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS, BOARD Accordingly, the Direction of Elections is hereby amended to read as follows: AMENDED DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re- lations Act, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, it is hereby DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation authorized by the Board to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, New York, elections by secret ballot shall be conducted as early as possible but not later than thirty (30) days from the date of this Amended Direction of Elec- tions under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Third Region, acting in this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board and subject to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, among : (a) The compositors, make-ups, stone hands, linotype operators, Iinotype-machine tenders, proofreaders, and other employees consid- ered as skilled composing-room help employed by the Company dur- ing the pay-roll period next preceding the date of this Amended Direction of Elections, iiicluding employees who did not work dur- ing such pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation and employees who were then or who prior to the election may have been temporarily laid off, but excluding supervisory employees and those who have quit or been discharged for cause, to determine whether or not they desire to be represented by Binghamton Typographical Union, No. 232, for the purposes of -collective bargaining; and (b) The printing pressmen and assistants employed by the Com- pany during the pay-roll period next preceding the date of this Amended Direction of Elections, including employees who did not work during this pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation and employees who were then or who prior to the election may have been temporarily laid off, but excluding supervisory employees and those who have quit or been discharged for cause, to determine whether or not they desire to be represented by Binghamton Printing Pressmen's and Assistants' Union, No. 57, I. P. P. and A. U., of Binghamton, New York, for the purposes of collective bargaining. DIR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of the above Amended Direction of Elections.