Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo Motor Way, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 22, 1963

141 N.L.R.B. 701 (N.L.R.B. 1963)

DENVER-COLORADO SPRINGS-PUEBLO MOTOR WAY, INC. 701
2. International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers,
Local 223, AFL-CIO, is a labor organization within the meaning of
Section 2 (5) of the Act.
3. The Respondent has not committed unfair labor practices within
the meaning of Section 8 (a) (1) of the Act.
[The Board dismissed the complaint.]
Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo Motor Way, Inc., Petitioner
and Amalgamated Association of Street , Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employees of America , Local 1468 , AFL-CIO.
Cases Nos. 27-RM-1 d2, 27-RM-1P23, and 27-RM-124. March 22,
1963
DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION
Upon petitions duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, a hearing was held before F. T. Frisbey, hearing officer.
The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prej-
udicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, the
Board has delegated its powers herein to a three-member panel [Chair-
man McCulloch and Members Rodgers and Leedom].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer-Petitioner is engaged in commerce within the
meaning of the Act.
2. The labor organization named below claims to represent certain
employees of the Employer.
3. The representation question :
The Employer, on August 1, 1962, filed three petitions requesting
three separate units of bus operators, terminal employees, and main-
tenance employees respectively in the Employer's northern division,
which was acquired by purchase in July 1959 from American Bus-
lines, Inc. These employees had been covered in a single overall unit
by a contract between the American Buslines and the incumbent
Union, the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employees of America, Local 1468, AFL-CIO, which
contract the Employer had assumed upon purchase of the line and
which expired on July 31, 1962. The Intervenors, the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, AFL-CIO, and the International Association of
Machinists, District No. 86, AFL-CIO, hold contracts covering em-
ployees in separate units of bus operators and maintenance employees
respectively in the Employer's southern division. The Brotherhood
contended that through its contract for bus operators in the southern
division it was entitled to represent all the employer's bus operators,
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including those in the recently acquired northern division. The
Machinists claimed to represent the maintenance employees and were
permitted to intervene by the submission of cards, thereby demonstrat-
ing an interest in the maintenance unit proposed by the Employer.
After the close of the hearing, pursuant to section 2 of article XXI of
the AFL-CIO constitution which forbids an affiliate to interfere with
an established collective-bargaining relationship of another affiliate,
the matter was submitted to the AFL-CIO for resolution. Upon
submission of the matter to an AFL-CIO referee, the Machinists re-
quested withdrawal of their motion to intervene. An impartial
umpire of the AFL-CIO then ruled that the attempt of the Brother-
hood to represent the bus operators of the northern division also con-
stituted interference with an established collective-bargaining rela-
tionship and a violation of section 2 of article XXI of the AFL-CIO
constitution. Thereupon the Brotherhood complied with the ruling
and requested permission to withdraw its intervention in the present
case. Inasmuch as the Machinists and the Brotherhood do not now
desire to represent the employees of the northern division, the Board
hereby orders that their respective requests to withdraw from the
proceeding be, and they hereby are, granted.
The employees involved in the Employer's three petitions taken
together constitute the overall unit presently represented by Amal-
gamated. The Amalgamated has claimed and been refused repre-
sentative status in this unit since the expiration of its contract in July
1962, and stands ready to reestablish its majority status. Under these
circumstances, we find that a question affecting commerce exists con-
cerning the representation of certain employees of the Employer,
within the meaning of Sections 9(c) (1) and 2(6) and (7) of the Act.
4. The appropriate unit question :
The Amalgamated has continuously represented the employees of
the present northern division in the overall unit of bus operators,
maintenance, and terminal employees, since 1951. On January 30,
1958, the Amalgamated was certified as the representative of the
present northern division employees in this overall unit in Case No.
17-RC-2432 (not published in NLRB volumes). Moreover, the
Brotherhood and the Machinists have now requested, and have been
permitted herein, to withdraw their intervention in the proceeding, so
that there is no other union willing to represent the employees in any
other unit except in the combined and historically established overall
unit. Since the acquisition of the northern division operation there
has been no integration of services with the southern division, nor
have there been any administrative changes in the immediate supervi-
sion of the rank-and-file employees. The newly acquired lines of the
northern division cover different geographical areas and do not over-
lap with the lines of the southern division, so that the northern divi-
COMMUNITY MOTOR BUS COMPANY, INC. 703
Sion continues to be operated as a separate and distinct operating divi-
sion. Under these circumstances we find the overall unit of bus
operators and terminal and maintenance employees in the northern
division appropriate.'
The following employees of the Employer constitute a unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining within Section 9 (b)
of the Act :
All bus operators, terminal employees consisting of ticket clerks,
baggagemen, porters and maids, and maintenance employees consist-
ing of mechanics and helpers employed in the northern division of
the Employer, but excluding office clerical employees, dispatchers,
terminal managers and all other managers, all other employees, profes-
sional employees, supervisors, watchmen, and guards as defined in the
Act.
[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication.]
MEMBER RODGERS, concurring :
I concur in the result.
I Transcontinental Bus System , Inc., 119 NLRB 1840, 1842-1844.
Community Motor Bus Company, Inc. and Division 1177, Amal-
gamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees of America , AFL-CIO. Case No. 5-CA-2138.
March 25, 1963
DECISION AND ORDER
On November 30, 1962, Trial Examiner Leo F. Lightner issued his
Intermediate Report in the above-entitled proceeding, finding that the
Respondent had engaged in and was engaging in certain unfair labor
practices and recommending that it cease and desist therefrom and
take certain affirmative action, as set forth in the attached Intermedi-
ate Report. Thereafter, the Respondent filed exceptions to the Inter-
mediate Report and a supporting brief.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the Act, the Board
has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-member
panel [Chairman McCulloch and Members Leedom and Brown].
The Board has reviewed the rulings of the Trial Examiner made
at the hearing and finds that no prejudicial error was committed. The
rulings are hereby affirmed. The Board has considered the Intermedi-
ate Report, the exceptions and brief, and the entire record in this
case and, except as noted herein, adopts the findings, conclusions, and
recommendations of the Trial Examiner.
141 NLRB No. 69.