Forest City Manufacturing Co.

In the Matter of FOREST CITY MANUFACTURING COMPANY and INTER- NATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION Case No. R-2070 SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND ORDER February 10, 1941 On October 24, 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 October 31, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Four- teenth Region (St. Louis, Missouri ). On November 2, 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 servP'l upon the parties an-:Election Report on the ballot. As to the balloting and its results , the Regional Director reported as follows : Number of employees eligible to vote ________________________ 353 Total number of ballots cast________________________________ 348 Number of ballots challenged________________________________ 10 Number of blank ballots___________________________________ 2 -- Number of 'Void ballots _____________________________________ 0 Total number of ballots counted______ _______________________ 336 Number of ballots voted "Yes," that is , designating Interna- tional Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, as representative for the purposes of collective bargaining__________________________ 110 Number of ballots voted "No"________________________________ 226 On November 8, 1940, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, herein called- the Union, filed Objections to Election Report, alleging that Forest City Manufacturing Company, herein called the Company, by. its officers and agents engaged in certain activities be- 1 27 N L R B. 1100 29 N L. R B., No. 91. 517 518 DECISIONS 'OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD fore the election which interfered and,tended„to interfere with-the,, free exercise of the will of its employees, that supervisory 'officials of the Company caused rumors to be spread among the employees to the effect that if they voted for the Union the Company's, operations would decrease, and that by these and other acts, specifically set out in its objections, the Company influenced its employees to vote against the Union. On January 22, 1941, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to. Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued a Report on Objections, finding in effect that the objections raise no substantial and material` issues. We have considered the objections of the Union and the Regional Director's Report thereon. 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. The. results of the election show that no collective bargaining representative has been selected,by a majority of the employees. The petition for investigation and certification of representatives of em- ployees of Forest City Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Missouri,, will, therefore, be dismissed.. ORDER By virtue of 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 ORDERED that the petition for investigation and certi- fication of representatives of employees of Forest City Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, filed by International Ladies' Garment. Workers' Union be, and it hereby is, dismissed. -