Amalgamated Leather Companies., Inc.

In- the Matter of AIiALGAMATED LEATHER COMPANIES, Iicc. and INTERNATIONAL Fun & LEATHER WORKERS UNION, AFFILIATED WITH THE CIO Case No. R--i04f CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES December 9, 1940 On October 31, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on November 22, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Fourth Region (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). On November 26, 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. No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report 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------------------------------------- 717 Total ballots cast------------------------------------------ 679 Challenged ballots------------------------------------------ 25 Blank ballots----------------------------------------------- 0 Void ballots------------------------------------------------ 2 Total valid votes cast-------------------------------------- 652 Votes cast for International Fur-& Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada, and Local 201, C. I. 0------ 597 Votes cast against International Fur & Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada , and Local 201, C. I. 0--- 55 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 International Fur & Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada, Local 201, affiliated with '27 N. L. R. B. 1166. 28 N. L. It. B., No. 68. 413 414 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all piece workers and production and main- tenance employees of Amalgamated Leather Companies, Inc., Wil- mington, Delaware, excluding clerical, office, and executive employ- ees, truck drivers, watchmen, foremen, floorladies, apprentices, and others in a supervisory capacity, as their representative for the pur- poses of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, International Fur & Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada, Local 201, 'affiliated with the Congress of Indus- trial Organizations, is the exclusive representative of all such em- ployees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.