International Harvester Co.

In the Matter Of INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY (ROCK FALLS WORKS) and FEDERAL LABOR UNION No. 22647, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Case No. R-2506 SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES September 16, 1941 On May 22, 1941, 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 Elec- tion; an election by secret ballot was conducted on June 18, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On August 9, 1941, the Board issued a Supplemental Decision and Direction.2 On August 18, 1941, Federal Labor Union No. 22647 filed a motion to reconsider. The motion is hereby denied. Pursuant to the Supplemental De- cision and Direction, 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 a Supplemental Election Report. No objections to the. conduct of the ballot or the Supplemental Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, The Regional Director reported as follows : Total number of ballots cast________________________________ 208 Total number on eligibility list ------------------------------ 203 Total number of void ballots_______________________________ 0 Total number of blank ballots ------------------------------- 0 Total number of valid ballots cast___________________________ 204 Total number of ballots cast for Local 22647__________________ 100 Total number of ballots cast for the F. E., W. 0. C---------- 103 Total number of ballots cast for neither______________________ 1 132 N. L. R B. 33. 2 34 N. L. R B. 106. 35 N. L. R B, No. 99. 445 446 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 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 Local 111, Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance employees at the Rock Falls Works of International Harvester Company, Rock Falls, Illinois, excluding salaried employees, supervisory employees on hourly rates above the rank of working group leaders, factory clerical employees, office clerical employees, indentured apprentices, progressive executive stu- dents, fire and watch employees (except production and maintenance employees who act as volunteer firemen), and temporary employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the'Act, Local 111, Farm Equip- ment Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 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.