NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

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the subforemen and group leaders in question did manual work, but
had the power to recommend hiring and discharging. The Board
said :
The subforemen and group leaders belong to a class of minor supervisory
employees whose inclusion in or exclusion from a unit made up of production
workers must depend largely upon the particular facts in each case. Where,
as here, there is a history of rivalry among labor organizations claiming to
represent amployees, it is important that the employer be free from the imputation
of coercing his employees in their choice of representatives. Since subforemen
and group leaders are in some measure identified with management, it
is not improbable that their participation in a controversy between rival unions
will lead to charges of employer interference. We will, therefore, exclude
subforemen and group leaders, as well as general foremen, from the unit.
Where all parties are agreed, however, that employees of a minor
supervisory status should be included in a bargaining unit, the Board
has ordinarily adopted their decision.°° However, in Matter of Roma
Wine Company, 91 where two unions were involved, the Board said:
Both unions admit foremen to membership and both claim that foremen
who are members of either union should be included in the appropriate unit.
The record does not indicate which foremen, if any, belong to either union. We
might be disposed to adopt a recommendation by both unions for the inclusion
of all foremen in the appropriate unit. We cannot, however, include
merely those foremen who happen to belong to either union at this time, and
thus embody in a definition of the appropriate unit the fortuitous state of
organization existing among the foremen at present. We shall, therefore,
follow our usual practice and exclude foremen.°
Employees who inspect the work of other employees, and whose
decisions consequently affect the wages received by the latter, and
also disclose bad work performed by them, have been held by the
Board sufficiently close to the management to warrant their exclusion
from a unit for production workers, where the participating
labor organization desires such exclusion. 93 In one case, however,
where both of the unions involved admitted inspectors to membership,
the Board included them in the unit, despite the objection of
one of the unions."
0° Matter of Campbell Machine Company, David C. Campbell and George E. Campbell, copartners,
trading as Campbell Machine Company, and international Association of Machinists,
Local No. $89; Shipwrights, Boatbuilders & Caulkers; and International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, Local No. 569, 3 N. L. R. B. 793 (foremen and assistant foremen)
Matter of Jones Lumber Company, West Oregon Lumber Corn pang, Clark & Wilson Lumber
Company, B. F. Johnson Lumber Company, Portland Lumber Mills, Inman-Poulsen Lumber
Company, and Eastern & Western Lumber Company and Columbia River District Council
of Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union No. 5, etc., et al., 3 N. L. R. B. 855 (foremen;
Matter of American Hardware Corporation and United Electrical and Radio Workers of
America, 4 N. L. R. B. 412 (foremen) ; Matter of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., Blumauer
Frank Drug Division and International Longshoremen and Warehousemens Union, Local
9, District 1, affiliated with the (.7. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 70; Matter of Santa Fe Trails Transportation
Company and International Association of Machinists, Local Lodge 1308, 7 N. L.
R. B. 358 (foremen) ; Matter of Pier Machine Works, Inc. and Industrial Union of Marine
and Ship Building Workers of America, Local No. 13, 7 N. L. R. B. 401 (assistant foremen)
and Matter of National Licorice Company and Bakery and Con fectionerv Workers International
Union of America, Local Union 405, Greater New York and Vicinity, 7 N. L. R. B.
537 (working foremen).
21 Matter of Roma Wine Company and International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union, 7 N. L. R. B. 135.
92 See also Matter of French Maid Dress Company, Inc., and International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Local No. 166, 5 N. L. It. B. 325.
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; and Matter of Keystone Manufacturing
Company and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local Industrial Union No. 538 of the
C. I. 0., 7 N. L. B. B. 172.
94 Matter of Friedman Blau Farber Company and International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union, Local No. 295, 4 N. L. R. B. 151.