Kansas City Power & Light Co.

In the Matter of KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY and LOCAL UNION B-412, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS Case No. R-298 CERTIFICATION"OF REPRESENTATIVES August 5, 1940 On May 31, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.1 On June 29, 1940, the Board issued an Amended Direction of Election.2 Pursuant to the Amended Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on July 15, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City, Missouri). On July 16, and 17, 1940, respectively, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report and an Amendment to the Election Report on the ballot. No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Elec- tion Report, as amended, have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows: Total on eligibility list___________________________________ 347 Total votes cast for Local B-412, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers_____________________________________ 172 Total votes cast against Local B-412, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers__________________________________ 122 Total ballots challenged__________________________________ 35 Total blank ballots______________________________________ 0 Total void ballots_______________________________________ 0 Total ballots cast________________________________________ 329 Total valid ballots cast excluding, without determination as to validity, the 35 challenged ballots _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 294 By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of 1 12 N. L. R. B. 1461. 424 N. L. R. B. 1129. 26 N. L. R. B., No. 11. 123 124 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Local Union B-412, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees in the production department of Kansas City Power & Light Company, Kansas City, Missouri, exclud- ing supervisory employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Local Union B-412, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 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. MR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of the above Certification of Representatives.