Columbia Pictures Corp.

In the Matter of COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION, SAMUEL GOLD- WYN, INC., LTD., LOEW'S, INC., R. K. O. RADIO PICTURES, INC., REPUBLIC PRODUCTIONS, INC., HAL ROACH STUDIOS, INC., SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, INC., 20TH CENTURY Fox FILM CORPORA- TION, UNIVERSAL PICTURES COMPANY, INC., WALTER WANGER PRO- DUCTIONS, INC. and SCREEN OFFICE EMPLOYEES GUILD (IND.) Cases Nos. R-2035 to R-2044,4, inclusive CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES November 23, 1940 On October 8, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board issued its Decision, Direction of Elections, and Order in the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, separate elec- tions by secret ballot were conducted among certain employees of Columbia Pictures Corporation, Loew's, Inc., R. K. O: Radio Pic- tures, Inc., Republic Productions, Inc., Hal Roach Studios, Inc., Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Walter Wanger Productions, Inc., and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, all of Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Twenty-first Region (Los Angeles, California). 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 involved therein Election Reports on the respective ballots. No -objections to the conduct of any of the ballots or to- the-respective Election Reports have been filed by any of the parties. As, to the -balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows: Columbia Pictures Corporation : Total on .eligibility list_________________________________ 166 Total ballots cast__________________ ------------------------ 141 Total- ballots challenged_____________________________________ 12 Total blank ballots__________ _____________________ 0 'Total -void ballots------------------------------------------- 0 Total ballots 'not counted____________________________________ 12 Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 129 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)----- --__ 128 Total votes against-Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------- 1 ^27N L.R.B 708 28 N. L. R. B., No. 17. 57 58 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc.: Total on eligibility list_____________________________________ 235 Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 200 Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 19 Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0 Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0 Total ballots not counted___________________________________ 19 Total ballots counted --------------------------------------- 181 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 176 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind )______ 5 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.: Total on eligibility list______________________________________ 143 Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 133 Total ballots challenged --------------------------------------- 13 Total blank ballots_________________________________________ 0 Total void ballots__________________________________________ 0 Total ballots not counted____________________________________ 13 Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 120 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 117 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ----- Republic Productions, Inc.: 3 Total on eligibility list_____________________________________ 62 Total ballots cast__________________________________________ 53 Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 1 Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0 Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0 Total ballots not counted__________________ ________________ 1 Total ballots counted________________________________________ 52 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 52 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------ 0 Loew's, Inc.: Total on eligibility list --------------------------------------- 565 Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 452 Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 20 Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0 Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0 Total ballots not counted____________________________________ 20 Total ballots counted_______________________________________ 432 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 402 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) -------- Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.: 30 Total on eligibility list_______________________________________ 9 Total ballots cast__________________________________________ 7 Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 0 Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0 Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0 Total ballots not counted___________________________________ 0 Total ballots counted________________________________________ 7 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 5 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ------ 2 COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION 59 20th Century Fox Film Corporation: Total on eligibility list------------------------------------- 459 Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 418 Total ballots 'challenged ------------------------------------- 16 Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0 Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 0 Total ballots not counted------------------------------------ 16 Total ballots counted ---------------------------------------- 402 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild ( Ind.) --------- 156 Total votes for 20th Century Fox Studio Office Employees Guild_ 242 Total votes for neither-------------------------------------- Hal Roach Studios, Inc.: 4 Total on eligibility list-------------------------------------- 32 Total ballots cast -------------------------------------------- 30 Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 1 Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0 Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 0 Total ballots not counted----------------------------------- 1 Total ballots counted--------------------------------------- 29 Total votes for Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) --------- 29 Total votes against Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) ----- 0 By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela- tions 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 Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators, and messengers, rendering services at the Los Angeles County studios of the Columbia Pictures Corpo- ration, including casting clerks,'excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the transportation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the following officials : the general production manager, the studio treasurer and the executive in charge of, public, relations, head of the legal department, and also excluding those persons who perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their working time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or persons who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations with respect thereto are generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 ('a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with 60 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment; and IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services at ,the Los Angeles County studios of R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the trans- portation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, per- sonal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the following officials-' the, general production manager, the studio treasurer and the executive in charge of public relations, head of the legal department, comptroller, and also excluding those persons who perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a sub- stantial portion of their working time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or persons who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations with respect thereto are generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of collective bar- gaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screed Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment; and _ IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.). has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, sec- retarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services at the Los Angeles County studios of Universal Pictures Company, -Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside, messengers attached to the transportation department, script clerks and laboratory shipping clerks, personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the general manager of the studio and the manager of studio operation, those persons who perform executive, administra- tive, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their work- ing time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations are generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of col- lective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employ- ment, and other conditions of employment; and COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION 61 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services - at the Los Angeles County studios of Republic Productions, Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the trans- portation department, script clerks and laboratory shipping clerks, personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, those persons who perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion 'of their working time or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations are generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,' Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative' of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment; and IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)' has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical,' secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services at the Los Angeles County studios of Loew's, Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the transportation depart- ment, script clerks and laboratory shipping clerks, personal secre- taries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the fol- lowing officials: The executive head of the studio, the studio manager, the comptroller, the executive head in charge of the cartoon studio, the executive head in charge of the shorts studio, and executive pro- ducers who participate with other executives in the framing of gen- eral studio policies,, those persons who perform executive, adminis- trative, or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their working time, or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have the right to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommenda- tions are generally followed, as their representative for the pur- poses of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the, purposes of col- lective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment; and IT IS I-=By CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.)' has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, 62 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD secretarial, and accounting employees, office and tabulating machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers , rendering services at - the Los Angeles County studios of Walter Wanger Produc-_ tions, Inc., excluding, however, outside messengers attached to the transportation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to any of the following officials : the general production manager, the studio treasurer, and the executive in' charge of public relations, and also excluding those persons who perform executive , adminis- trative, or supervisory duties for a substantial portion of their work- ing time, or who have the right to hire or fire , or to recommend with respect thereto and whose recommendations are generally followed, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay , hours of employment , and other conditions of employment; and IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that 20th Century Fox Studio Office Em- ployees Guild has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, secretarial , and accounting employees, office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators , and messengers, rendering services at the Los Angeles County studios of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation , including casting clerks , excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors , outside messengers attached to the transportation department, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks , personal secretaries to officers of the corporation, per- sonal secretaries to the following officials : general production man- ager, executive producer, studio treasurer , and executive in charge of public relations , and also excluding those persons who perform executive, administrative , or supervisory functions for a substantial portion of their working time , or who have the right to hire or fire, or who have the right to recommend with respect to hiring or firing, and whose recommendations are generally followed , as their repre- sentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and-that pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, 20th Century Fox Studio Office Employees Guild is the exclu- sive representative of all such employees for the purpose of collec- tive bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of em- ployment, and other conditions of employment; and IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) has been designated and selected by a majority of office, clerical, secretarial , and accounting employees , office and tabulating-machine operators, switchboard operators and messengers, rendering services at COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION 63 the Los Angeles County studios of Hal Roach Studios, Inc., including casting clerks, excluding, however, casting directors and assistant casting directors, outside messengers attached to the transportation de- partment, laboratory shipping clerks, script clerks, personal secre- taries to officers of the corporation, personal secretaries to the follow- ing officials: the general production manager, the studio treasurer, and the executive in charge of public relations, and also excluding those persons who perform executive, administrative, or supervisory functions for a substanital portion of their working time or who have the right to hire or fire, or persons who have the right to recom- mend with respect thereto and whose recommendations with respect thereto are generally followed, as their representative for the pur- poses of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Screen Office Employees Guild (Ind.) is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of employment, and other -conditions of employment.