Viking Refrigerators, Inc.

V , In the Matter of VIKING REFRIGERATORS, INC.' anad CARPENTERS' DIs- 'TRICT' COUNCIL, AFFILIATED- WITH THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD ' OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMER- ICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR ' Case R-303. CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES December 511941 On October 21, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued its. Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled pro- ceeding.1 Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on November 5, 1941, under the direction and supervision of, the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City, Missouri). On November 6,l 1941, the Regional Direc- tor, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended; issued an Election Report, copies of which were duly served upon the parties. No objections to, the conduct of,, the ballot or. to, the ,Election, Report were filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows : Total on eligibility list-------------------------------------- 39 Total ballots cast-------------------------------------------- 35 Total ballots challenged------------------------------------- 0 Total blank ballots------------------------------------------ 0 Total void ballots------------------------------------------- 0 Total valid votes cast--------------------------------------- 35 Votes cast for Carpenters' District Council, affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor------------ 16 Votes cast for Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the C I. 0------------------------------------------ 18 Votes cast for neither--------------------------------------- 1 By virtue of and pursuant to the power -vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re- lations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 1 36 N. L R. B., No. 55. 37 N. L. R. B., No. 55. 330 VIKING REFIRIGERATORS, INC. -331 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, IT IS HEREBY CEr.TIFIED that Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has ; been designated and selected, by a majority of all production,and mainte- nance employees of Viking Refrigerators, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, excluding the superintendent, foremen, and office employees, as their representative, for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Steel. Workers Organizing Committee, 'affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive representa- tive of all such employees for -the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment: