Belmont Radio Corporation 6nd United Electrical, Radio And Machine Workers Of America, Affiliated With Tihe Congress Of Industrial Organizations, 341 (1940)

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Belmont Radio Corporation 6nd United Electrical, Radio And Machine Workers Of America, Affiliated With Tihe Congress Of Industrial Organizations, 341 (1940)

In the Matter of BELMONT RADIO CORPORATION 6nd UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH TIHE CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Case No. R-1998.-Decided September 20, 1940 Jurisdiction: radio manufacturing industry.

Investigation and Certification of Representatives: existence of question: refusal to accord recognition to union; conflicting claims of rival representatives;

election necessary.

Renewed contract with one union held no bar to determination of question concerning representation, where prior to last date for notification by parties to contract of desire to prevent its automatic renewal, another union, having substantial representation among employees, notifies Company of rival representation claim, offers to prove it before the Board, and requests that contract not be renewed pending determination of representation question, and where such union files petition prior to renewal of contract.

Where Company's business is seasonal, appropriate pay roll for determining eligibility held to be one when employment is greater than during slack periods but less than during peak production seasons; pay-roll period immediately preceding direction of election chosen.

Where nine employees have been laid off allegedly pursuant to closed-shop provisions of existing contract, held legality of lay-offs cannot be determined in representation proceeding, and eligibility of laid-off employees to vote held dependent on whether they meet general eligibility requir...

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