Press Wireless, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 2, 1941

32 N.L.R.B. 262 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter of PRESS WIRELESS, INC. and AMERICAN
COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION
In the Matter of PRESS WIRELESS, INC. and THE INDEPENDENT
COMMUNICATIONS GUILD
Cases Nos. R-0142 and R-2143
SUPPLEMENTAL DECISION
AND -
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 0, 19V
On December 6, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued its 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 December 20,
1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Second Region (New York City). On December 23, 1940,
the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of
the National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
2, as amended, issued and duly served upon the parties an Election
Report.
As to the balloting and its results the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total Number Eligible to Vote ------------------------ 72
Total Number of Ballots Cast______________________________ 71
Total Number of Valid Ballots------------------------------ 70
Total Number of Votes in favor of American Communications
Association, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations------------------------------------------- 31
Total Number of Votes in favor of Independent Communica-
tions Guild---------------------------------------------- 36
Total Number of Votes in favor of neither union ------------ 3
Total Number of Blank Votes______________________________ 0
Total Number of Void Ballots______________________________ 0
Total Number of Challenged Votes________________________ 1
128 N L. R. B 348.
32 N. L. It. B., No. 54.
262
PRESS WIRELEISISS, INC 263
On December 28, 1940, the American Communications Association,-
herein called the A. C. A., filed with the Board its Exceptions to
the Election Report. On February 3, 1941, the Acting 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 a Report on Objections, and on March 12, 1941, the
Regional Director issued and duly served a Supplemental Report on
Objections. The Board has considered the Objections of the A. C. A.
and finds that they do not raise substantial and material issues with
respect to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report. The
Objections are hereby overruled.
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, 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, Independent Communications Guild
has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees of
Press Wireless, Inc., at its Long Island stations, including point-to-
point operators, newscast operators, coastal marine operators, shift
operators, tuning operators, printer operators, traffic clerks, construc-
tion men, riggers, maintenance men, abstractors, and janitors, but
excluding supervisors, part-time supervisors, experimental engineers,
the secretary to the manager, the pay clerk, the switchboard operator,
the bookkeeper, and the draftsman, 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, Independent
Communications Guild is the exclusivve representative 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.