General Motors Corp.

In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA- TION and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L. In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION or GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA- TION and UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L. In the Matter of DELCO RADIO DIVISION OF,GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA- TION and METAL POLISHERS, BUFFERS, PLATERS & HELPERS INTL. UNION, LOCAL No. 24, AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L. Cases Nos. R-1848, R-18419, and R-1850 SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES November 20, 190 On July 19, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Elections in the above- entitled proceeding., On October 3, 1940, the Board issued a Sup- plemental Decision, Second Direction of Election and Certification of Representatives.2 Pursuant to the Supplemental Decision, Second Direction of Election and Certification of Representatives, an election by secret ballot was conducted on October 29, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eleventh Region (Indianapolis, Indiana). On October 30, 1940, 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 on the ballot. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows : Total number of employee:; alleged eligible to vote------------- S02 Total number voted----------------------------------------- 742 Total number of valid votes cast----------------------------- 719 Total number of votes for the AFL--------------------------- 362 Total number of votes for the CIO-UAW---------------------- 357 12.5 N L R B 698 227NLR B 628 28 N L. 11 B, No. 12. - 36 DELCO RADIO 37 Total blank ballots ----------------------------------------- 19 Total number of void ballots -------------------- ------------- 3 Total number of challenged ballots ___________________________ 1 On November 5, 1940, International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organ- izations, herein called CIO-UAW, filed with the Regional Director Objections to Conduct of Ballot and Election Report. On November 8, 1940, the Regional Director , acting pursuant to Article III, Sec- tion 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations- Series 2, as amended, issued 'a Report on Objections to the Conduct of Secret Ballot and Election Report. We have considered the objections of the CIO-UAW and the Regional Director 's Report thereon and we are of the opinion that the objections raise no substantial and material issues with respect to the conduct of the election. The objections are hereby overruled. 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 National Labor ' Relations Board Rules - and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that American Federation of Labor has been designated and selected by a majority of all production , maintenance, ° and tool-room employees in Plant 1 and Plant 2 of Delco Radio Divi- sion of General Motors Corporation , Kokomo, Indiana, excluding metal polishers , buffers, platers, and their helpers, direct representa- tives of the management , such as officers and directors of the Company, sales managers and assistant sales managers, factory managers and ,assistant factory managers, process engineers, tool designers, time keepers, time-study Inen, directors ancl,employees of sales, accounting, Personnel and Industrial Relations Departments , directors of pur- -chases and assistant directors of purchases , superintendents and assist- ant superintendents , general foremen , foremen and assistant foremen, all other persons working in a supervisory capacity , including those having the right to hire and discharge and those whose duties include recommendations as to hiring and discharging (but not leaders), and those employees whose work is of a confidential nature, office employees, plant production employees, all clerical employees, chief engineers, shift operating engineers in the power plant, designing engineers, laboratory technicians, technical school students, engineering model makers, draftsmen, and detailers, as their representative for the pur- poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, American Federation of Labor 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.