Glazer Steel Corporation, Employer And International Association Of Bridge, Structural And Ornamental Iron Workers, Shoemens Local No. 715, A. F. L., Petitioner, 530 (1949)

In the Matter of GLAZER STEEL CORPORATION, EMPLOYER and INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL AND ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS, SHOEMENS LOCAL NO. 715, A. F. L., PETITIONER Case No. 10-RC-382.-Decided February 9, 1949 DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before a hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-man panel consisting of the undersigned Board Members.* Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds:

1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.

2. The labor organization involved claims to represent employees of the Employer.

3. A question affecting commerce exists concerning the representation of employees of the Employer, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) (1) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.

4. The Petitioner seeks a unit of all the production and maintenance employees, including all truck drivers, yardmen, plant janitors, stockroom clerks, and electricians, but excluding the janitress, office boy, salesmen, scrap buyers, watchmen, office and clerical employees, guards, professional employees, and all supervisors as defined in the Act.

While otherwise in agreement, the Employer contends that the scrap yardmen and truck drivers should be excluded from the proposed unit.

The Employer, a Tennessee corporation, is engaged at its plant in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the fabrication and sale of heavy structural steel and in the purchase and sale of scrap metals.

All the physical facilities of the Employer are within the same fence enclosure, though the functional activities are sectionalized as much as possible into three divisions: steel fabricating, steel ware*Houston, Reynolds, and Murdock.

530 housing and yard, and metal scrap. The steel fabricating division manufactures various structural shapes and plates. The steel warehousing division handles new steel and plate material for use either by the fabricating division or for resale in its original form. The scrap division handles both non-ferrous metal and scrap iron; it also bales scrap iron into 300 pound bundles for shipment to the steel mills.

The steel fabrication division occupies an entire building. A second building is occupied principally by the non-ferrous metal scrap workers with the smaller portion of the same building used for new steel warehousing. An overhead crane runway, several hundred feet in length, runs between these two buildings to a railroad siding and loading point. On one side of these buildings is an outdoors yard area where new and used steel is stored while on the other side of the buildings is a yard area devoted to the baling and storage of the scrap metal. The crane runway is used by...