NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

VII. PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED 185
Office employees have been excluded even where the only union or
unions involved desired their inclusion. In Matter of Allis-Chalim,ers
Manufacturing Company, 98 where only one union claimed to represent
employees in the company's plant generally, the Board said :
Local No. 248 wants to include the office workers with the other workers in
the plant. It has failed, however, to adduce sufficient evidence to support its
position. In the absence of such evidence, the clear difference in function and
the usual difference in the problems faced by each group, not shown to be
otherwise in the instant case, would appear to be controlling.
The case of clerical employees who work in a factory, in close
contact with manual workers, differs somewhat from that of office
employees. The Board has held that the interests of such employees
do not differ so greatly from those of production and maintenance
employees as to warrant their separation from the latter, where the
only union or unions involved desire their inclusion in one unit,'
even though the employer desires their exclusion. 2 However, where
the only union involved wants such employees excluded," or where
one union desires such exclusion, and another does not, 4 it has been
practice of the Board to exclude them, unless sufficient reasons are
Works and Farm Equipment Workers Association Division of A.. A. I. S. & T. W. N. A.
Lodge No. 1320, C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 192; 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, O. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 443; Matter of General Leather Products,
Inc. and Suitcase, Bag & Portfolio Makers Union, 5 N. L. R. B. o73; Matter of Red River
Lumber Company and Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union Local No. 5$, of International
Woodworkers of America, 5 N. L. R. B. 663; Matter of U. S. Testing Co., Inc. and Federation
of Architects, Engineers, Chemists it Technicians, C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 696;
Matter of Lids Brothers, Incorporated and United Wholesale Employees, (Local NO. 65),
5 N. L. R. B. 757; Matter of Tennessee CoPpet Company and A. F. of L. Federal Union
No. 21164, 5 N. L. R. B. 768; Matter of Armour & Company and Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local Union No. 413, 5 N. L. R. B. 97;
Matter of The Falk Corporation and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers of North America, Lodge 1528, 6 N. L. R. B. 654: Matter of John Minder mut
Son, Inc. and Butchers Union, Local No. /74, 6 N. L. R. B. 764; Matter of Tennessee
Electric Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 7 N. L. R.
B. 24; and Matter of Sunshine Mining Company and International Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers. 7 N. L. R. B. 1252.
08 ,1/atter of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company and International- Union, United
Automobile Workers of America, Local 248, 4 N. L. R. B. 159.
99 See also : Matter of Northrop Corporation and United Automobile Workers, Local No. 229,
3 N. L. R. B. 228; and Matter of McKesson it Robbins, Inc., Blumauer Frank Drug Division.
and International Longshoremen it TVarehousemens Union, Local 9, District 1, affiliated
with the C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 70.
'Matter of American Hardware Corporation and United Electrical and Radio Workers of
America, 4 N. L. R. B. 412; Matter of Aluminum Company of America and Its Wholly
Owned Subsidiaries, The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company and The Aluminum Seal
Company and International Union Aluminum Workers or America, 6 N. L. R. B. 444; and
Matter of Cleveland Equipment Works and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of
America, Local 707, 6 N. L. R. B. 773.
2, Matter of Bendia Products Corporation and International Union, United Automobile
Workers of America, Bendix Local No. 9, 3 N. L. R. B. 682.
3 Matter of The Triplett Electrical Instrument Company, The Diller Manufacturing Company,
doing business under the firm name and style of Readrite Meter Works and United
Electrical and Radio Workers of America, Local No. 714, 5 N. L. R. B. 835; Matter of
Simplex Wire and Cable Company and Wire it Cable Workers Federal Local Union 21020,
affiliated with the A. F. of L., 6 N. L. R. B. 251; Matter of Keystone Manufacturing Company
and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local Industrial Union No. 538 of the O. I. 0..
7 N. L. R. B. 172; and Matter of Burnside Steel Foundry Company and Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge 1719, 7 N. L. R. B.
714.
'Matter of Westinghouse Airbrake Company and United Electric and Radio Workers of
America, Railway Equipment Workers Local No. 610, 4 N. L. R. B. 403; Matter of National
Motor Bearing Company and International Union, United Automobile Workers of America,
Local No. 76, 5 N. L. R. B. 409; Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 1657, 6 N. L. R. B.
780; 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; Matter of American Radiator Company
(Bond Plant and Terminal Plant) and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel it Tin
Workers, Lodges 1199 and 1629, 7 N. L. R. B. 452; and Matter of Walker Vehicle Company
and the Automatic Transportation Company, divisions of the Yale it Towne Manufacturing
Company and Walker-Automatic Independent Labor Association, 7 N. L. R. B. 827.