Grant Storage Batteries Co.

In the Matter of GRANT STORAGE BATTERIES COMPANY and UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 1140 Case No. R-2819 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES October 14, 1941 On September 17, 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 Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on September 29, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eigh- teenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota). On September 30, 1941, the. Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of Na- tional 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 to the. Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reportedt as follows : Total on eligiblity list_______________ ________________________ 69 Total ballots cast___________________________________________ 64 Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 0 Total blank ballots____________ ______________________________ 0 Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0 Total valid votes cast_______________________________________ 64 Votes cast for United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America,.Local 1140, C. I. 0_______________________________ 56 Votes cast for Local B-160, International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, Battery Branch, A. F. L___________________ 7 Votes cast for neither organization___________________________ 1 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, i 35 N. L. R. B., No. 101. 36 N. L. R. B., No. 21. 129 433118-42-vol. 36--10 130 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, Local 1140, affiliated with the Congress of Indus- trial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production employees employed by Grant Storage Batteries Com- pany at its plant at 2600 North Second Street, Minneapolis , Minne- sota, exclusive of those . employed in a supervisory capacity, those who have the right to hire and discharge , office employees, salesmen, out- side truck drivers, and chemists, as their representative for the pur- poses of collective bargaining , and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Electrical , Radio & Machine ,Workers of America, Local 1140, 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 em- ployment, and other conditions of employment. Mr. Gerard D. Reilly took no part in the consideration of the above Certification of Representatives.