Pennsylvania Electric Co., 1078 (1962)

1078 - DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD the engineers are; now, except for some electrical' maintenance 'work, exclusively engaged in performing typical powerhouse duties. Thus, unlike the situation at that time, their function and duties clearly distinguish them from the other maintenance employees.

As the licensed steam engineers are the only employees in the Denver operatipxi qualified to operate,,and maintain the high pressure boilerroom equipment, and. because-that is their principal function; we believe that they constitute a functionally distinct group of powerhouse or boilerroom employees of the type the Board has consistently found may be separately represented .6 Moreover, as the union seeking to represent them has historically and traditionally represented such units, we would direct a severance election among the engineers.

9 See, for example , Natvar Corporation, 109 NLRB 1278; Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company, 109 NLRB 1273; Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Pomona Division, 108 NLRB 159.

PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, AFL, PETITIONER. Case No. 6-RC-145.,

November 30, 1954

Decision and Order Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National La-, bor Relations Act, a hearing was held before Harvard G. Borchardt, hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.

Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :

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

2. The labor organizations involved claim to represent certain employees of the Employer.

3. No 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 for the following reasons :

The Petitioner seeks to represent a systemwide unit of production and maintenance employees, including certain engineering department employees, but excluding clerical employees. The Employer agrees that this unit is substantially appropriate, but would define the systemwide unit in terms of its operating departments and thug would include all employees in its production, transmission, and distribution departments, but would exclude all employees in its general offices, and those employees in the commercial and engineering departments, whom the Petitioner would include. The Intervenor,

Utility Workers of America, and its Local Union No. 180, C. I. 0., 110 NLRB No. 180.

contends that employees of the Employer's eastern division, whom the Intervenor currently represents, should constitute a separate unit.

In the alternative, the Intervenor is willing to represent an employerwide unit, including physical and clerical employees.

The Employer is engaged in generating,...