Long Bell Lumber Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 28, 1941

33 N.L.R.B. 49 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of LONG BELL LUMBER COMPANY and LUMBER AND
SAWMILL WORKERS' UNION, LOCAL #828, UNI'.LED BROTHERHOOD
OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA, A. F. OF L.
Case No. R-264J.Decided June 28,1941
Investigation and Certification of Representatives : stipulation for certification
of representatives upon consent election.
Mr. Earl S. Neal, for the Board.
Mr. David E. McLean, of Longview, Wash., for the Company.
Mr. Joe Boyd, of Klamath Falls, Oreg., for the Union.
Mr. William H. Bartley, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
On May 7, 1941, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, Local
#2828, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
A. F. of L., herein called the Union, filed with the Regional Director
for the Twentieth Region (San Francisco, California) a petition alleg-
ing that a question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the
representation of employees of Long Bell Lumber Company, herein
called the Company, engaged in the manufacturing of fir and pine lum-
ber at Dorris, California, and requesting an investigation and cer-
tification of representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National
Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On May
27,1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board,
acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III, Section
3, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended, ordered an investigation and authorized the Regional
Director to conduct it and to provide for an appropriate hearing on
due notice. On May 28,1941, the Company, the Union and the Acting
Regional Director entered into a "STIPULATION FOR CERTIFI-
CATION ON CONSENT ELECTION."
Pursuant to the stipulation an election by secret ballot was conducted
on June 5, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Acting
Regional Director among all production and maintenance employees
of the Company at the Dorris, California, manufacturing plant, in-
cluding sawmill, pond, planing mill and yard employees employed be-
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fore May 1, 1941, exclusive of supervisory and clerical employees, to
determine whether or not said employees desired to be represented by
the Union for the purposes of collective bargaining with the Company.
On June 9, 1941, the Acting Regional Director issued and duly served
upon the parties his Election Report on the ballot. No objections to
the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any
of the parties.
In his Election Report the Acting Regional Director reported as
follows concerning the balloting and its results :
Total number eligible to vote------------------------------- 80
Total number of votes counted------------------------------ 70
Total number of votes for Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union,
Local #2828, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America , A. F. of L------------------------------------ 58
Total number of votes against Lumber and Sawmill Workers'
Union, Local #2828, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, A. F. of L----------------------------- 12
Total number of blank ballots ------------------------------ 1
Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots--- ----------------------- 0
Upon the basis of the stipulation, the Election Report, and the entire
record in the case the Board makes the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. A question affecting commerce has arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of Long Bell Lumber Company, Dorris, Cali-
fornia, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Sections 2 (6) and
(7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All production and maintenance employees employed by the
Company at its Dorris, California, manufacturing plant, including
sawmill, pond, planing mill and yard employees, 'exclusive of super-
visory and clerical employees constitute a unit appropriate for the
purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of Section 9 (b)
of the National Labor Relations Act.
3. Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, Local #2828, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, A. F. of L., has
been designated and selected by a majority of the employees in the
above unit as their representative for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining and is the exclusive representative of all the employees in said
unit within the meaning of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor
Relations Act.
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
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,
LONG BELL LUMBER COMPANY 51
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Uilion,
Local #2828, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, A. F. of L., has been designated.and selected by a majority
of the production and maintenance employees at the Dorris, Cali-
fornia, manufacturing plant, including sawmill, pond, planing mill
and yard employees, exclusive of supervisory and clerical employees,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the Act, the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers' Union, Local #2828, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America, A. F. of L., is the.exclusive repre-
sentative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other
conditions of employment.
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