The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
81 Westinghouse
Elections Ordered
Within 80 Days


Washington (LPA)-The NLRE
on March 20 ordered 81 elections
among $4,000 employees of the
Westinghouse Corporation withir
80 days, at 40 plants in 32 cities ir
13 states. The regional director al
Baltimore will set the exact date
The election will be the second
major test of strength between the
International Electrical Workers
and the United Electrical Workers
ousted from the C1O last fall fol
Communist domination.
In certain plants five other
unions were given places on the
ballots. They are: Federation of
Westinghouse Independent Salaried
Unions (unaffiliated); lnternation-
al Brotherhood of Electrical work
ers-AFL; Pattern Makers League
AFL; international Association of
Ma chinists (unaffiliated) and
Meter Division Engineers (unaffil-
iated).
The Board set up 40 specific bar
gaining units. 1t also set up IL ten
tative voting groups of employees
on which it reserved final deter
mination of the bargaining unit in
which they will be placed until
after the expression of the en-
ployes' own wishes by their ballots.
Most of the bargaining units estab-
lished were agreed to among the
parties and followed the lines of the
units which the UE has been rep
resenting for number of years.
Most of the tentative voting groups
were set up among salaried clerical
and professional employees and
skilled craftsmen.
The largest single group voting
will be the $4,000 employed at the
company's three plants in the East
Pittsburgh, Pa. area. The Board di-
vided them into two tentative vot-
ing groups. One, composed of all
employees except about
100 pattern makers, will have an
opportunity to vote for the UE or
the IUE or no union. The pattern
makers will have an opportunity to
select the AFL Pattern Makers
League in addition to these three
choices. This is the only election in
which the Pattern Makers Union
will participate.
Unions affiliated with the Fed
GRAFTON of Westinghouse lndepend-
ent Salaried Unions and the Fed
GRAFTON itself were given places on
the ballot in IL separate elections,
and the AFL Electrical Workers
Union was given places on the bal
lots in eight elections. The Ma
were placed on the ballot
in one election and the Meter Di-
vision Engineers Association in
one election.
The group with the largest num-
ber of choices will be II time and
motion analysts and the 60 engine
ers in the Newark plant. They will
have six choices: UE, IUE-ClO,
the Federation, the AFL Electrical
the Engineers Associa-,
ton, or none.
The UE and the company have.
had national contracts since 1943,i
and the current contract, executed
April l, l948, expires April /. The
company has notified the UE it in
tends to terminate the national.
and all local supple
ments.
The UE contended its contracts
bar an election, but the Board dis
agreed.
On February %, 1850, the Board
neld elections among 29,500 em-
ployes of the electrical division of
General Motors. IUE was chosen
agent by vote of 2l,-
l67 to 1928 for UE.
Petitions for elections among
approximately 100000 employees of
General Electric Corporation and
$50 employees of RCA-Victof
are pending.
So far, IUE has won % elections
o 6 for UE, counting the five sep
lrate elections at General Motors
nc ona alaction