Wheland Co., 662 (1951)

to the clerks and direct their activities in all respects. The Employer's supervisor of stores in Savannah testified without contradiction that assistant managers have power to hire or to discharge employees without consulting the store managers, and he cites three instances of their exercise of such authority. Upon these facts, it is clear, and we find, that assistant managers are supervisors as defined in the Act.

We shall therefore exclude them from the unit.

The Employer' classifies as part-time employees all persons who work less than 29 hours weekly. The number of such employees throughout the stores varies between 5 and 10. They are for the most part high school students employed principally on Saturdays. Ordinarily they work between 9 and 18 hours weekly; during-the summer months they may work as much as 27 hours per week. They do not handle cash or check out items, but otherwise do work similar to that of the full-time employees. Their pay rate is comparable to that of other employees although they do not enjoy the insurance, pension, and vacation benefits of the full-time workers. The record indicates, although it is not clear on this point, that the average part-time employee remains with the.Employer for about 6 months, but one at least has been employed for over 2 years. It thus appears that the part-time employees are regularly employed at work which is the same as that performed by full-time employees. We shall therefore include them, as regular part-time employees, in the unit. We also find that they are eligible to vote in the election hereinafter directed .5

We find that all produce, grocery, and dairy department employees in the Employer's four stores in Savannah, Georgia, including parttime employees, but excluding employees of the meat departments, assistant managers, managers, and all supervisors as defined in the Act, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining.

[Text of Direction of Election omitted from publication in this volume.] 5 The Kroger Company, 85 NLRB 6.

WfIELAND COMPANY and UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, CIO,

PETITIONER. Case No. 10-RC-1313. October 5, 1951

Supplemental Decision and Certification of Representatives Pursuant to a Decision and Direction of Elections issued on July 11, 1951,1 separate elections by secret ballot were conducted on August 1 Wheland Company, 95 NLRB No. 18.

96 NLRB No. 95

9, 1951, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Tenth Region among certain machine shop employees of the Employer. An election was conducted among the machine shop production and maintenance employees, excluding all machine shop helpers, to determine whether these employees desired to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by United Steelworkers of America, CIO, or by International Association of Machinists,

Lodge No. 56, or by neither; an election was conducted among the machine shop helpers to determine whether or not these employees desired to be represented by United Steelworkers of America, CIO.

Tallies of ballots were served upon the parties at the conclusion of the elections, and no objections were filed thereto. The tally for the production and maintenance machinists' election discloses that there, were 159 eligible...