Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company And Middle Atlantic District Salaried Employees Assoc., Affiliated With Federation Of Westinghouse Independent Unions, 460 (1943)

In the Matter of WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY and MIDDLE ATLANTIC DISTRICT SALARIED EMPLOYEES Assoc.,

AFFILIATED WITH FEDERATION OF WESTINGHOUSE INDEPENDENT UNIONS Case No. R-5789.-Decided September 6, 1943 Mr. Robert D. Blasier, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Company.

Messrs. Charles Y. Bellerjeau, of Haddon Heights, N. J., H. J.

Schaefer, Jr., of Merion, Pa., and Karl M. Busier, of Glenside, Pa., for the Union.

Miss Olive N. Barton, of counsel to the Board.

DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION STATEMENT OF THE CASE Upon petition duly filed by Middle Atlantic District Salaried Employees Assoc., affiliated with Federation of Westinghouse Independent Unions, herein called the Union, alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of employees of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, herein called the Company, the National Labor Relations Board provided for an appropriate hearing upon due notice before Geoffrey J. Cunniff, Trial Examiner. Said hearing was held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 3, 1943. The Company and the Union appeared, participated, and were afforded full opportunity to be heard, to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence bearing on the issues. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. All parties were afforded opportunity to file briefs with the Board.

Upon the entire record in the case,' the Board makes the following:

1Subsequent to the hearing the Company requested that certain typographical errors in the official transcript of the record be corrected. The Union agreed to most of these corrections. The record is hereby ordered corrected in those respects in which the parties are agreed.

460 FINDINGS OF FACT I. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, is a Pennsylvania corporation, engaged in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of electrical products of various kinds, ordnance material and various items used by the armed forces. We are here concerned with the employees of the Middle Atlantic District Main Office of the Company at 3001 Walnut Street, Philadephia, Pennsylvania. The Company has 24 major manufacturing plants located in various States and its raw materials are transported in interstate commerce. During 1942, it sold finished products valued at over $487,000,000 throughout the United States and foreign countries. Over 90 percent of the Company's business is war work.

The Company concedes that it is engaged in...