NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

178 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ence in wage rates," or in working conditions generally, 67 militates
against a single unit.
The manner in which wages are paid may serve to identify a class
of employees uniformly affected by wages, hours, and working conditions,
and hence interested in bargaining as a unit. This factor may
do no more than point the difference otherwise existing between two
groups of employees of the same employer. In Matter of Alabama
Drydoele & Shipbuilding Co. 68 it was claimed by one labor organization
that certain employees known as "leader men" should be excluded
because their duties were of a supervisory nature. The Board found
that those "leader men" who were paid on a salary basis should be
excluded from the unit, but that those who were paid on an hourly
basis should not be." In the same case, however, the Board held that
it would not make a general distinction between all salaried and nonsalaried
employees without a showing that there was a real difference
in interest between the two groups. It said :
The Industrial Union, in its petition, claims that all employees paid on a salary
basis should be excluded from the appropriate unit. No evidence was offered to
show what, if any, employees would be thereby excluded. Nor was any testimony
introduced to show that the basis of payment alone constituted a sufficient
ground for exclusion of employees from the bargaining unit. We find, therefore,
that, in describing the appropriate unit, words excluding all employees paid on
a salary basis should not be used.".
(c)
Organization of skilled employees along craft lines is an outgrowth
of the identity of problems confronting those engaged in a common
pursuit. Generally the wages, hours, and working conditions of skilled
craftsmen are different from those of other employees of the same
ea Matter of The H. Neuer Glass Company and Federation of Flat Glass Workers of
America, 4 N. L. R. B. 65; Matter of Armour 4 Co. (West Harlem Market) and The
Committee for Industrial Organization., 4 N. L. R. B. 951; Matter of American Manufacturing
Company; Company Union of the American Manufacturing Company; the Collective
Bargaining Committee of the Brooklyn Plant of the American Manufacturing Company and
Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, C. I. 10., 5 N. L. R. B. 443; Matter of Zenite Metal
Corporation and United Automobile Workers of America, Local No. 442, 5 N. L. R. B. 509;
and Matter of Industrial Rayon Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Textile Workers
Organizing Committee, 7 N. L. R. B. 877.
el Matter of S. Blechman & Sons, Inc. and United Wholesale Employees of New York,
Local 0, Textile Workers Organizing Committee—Committee for Industrial Organization,
4 N. L. R. B. 15; Matter of Bartlett C Snow Company and The Bartlett & Snow Employees'
Association, Inc., and United Automobile Workers of America, 4 N. L. R. B. 113.
"Matter of Alabama Drydock C Shipbuilding Co. and Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of America, Local No. 18. 5 N. L. R. B. 149.
• See quotation from this case in section G 3 (D) below. Other cases in which the
Board made a distinction ,between salaried and non-salaried employees are : Matter of
International Harvester Company Tractor Works and Farm Equipment Workers Association
Division of A. A. I. S. C T. W. N. A. Lodge No. 1320, C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 192;
Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and
Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 107, 6 N. L. R. B. 780; Matter of Burnside
Steel Foundry Company and Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers
of North America, Lodge No. 1719, 7 N. L. R. B. 714;• and Matter of The International
Nickel Company, Inc. and Square Deal Lodge No. 40, Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers of North America through Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
7 N. L. R. B. 46, in which the Board said :
Although the method of wage payment should not be decisive in considering the status
of such employees, it would appear from their transfer to the pay roll of salaried employees,
that the company itself considers their duties as bringing them within the same
general classification as the supervisory staff.
In Matter of Minnesota Broadcasting Company Operating WTCN and Newspaper Guild
of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Local No. 2 of the American Newspaper
Guild, 7 N. L. R. B. 867, the Board gave as one reason for excluding salesmen from
a unit of employees of a broadcasting station, the fact that they were paid on a
straight commission basis.
'° See also Matter of American .Radiator Company (Bond Plant and Terminal Plant)
and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel 4 Tin Workers, Lodges 1199 and 1629, 7
N. L. R. B. 452.
T1 Many cases dealing with the question of separate units for skilled craftsmen are
discussed above in section 0 2 (D).