NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

188 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
where all parties are agreed on such exclusion, 20 or where the only
union involved desires such exclusion, but the employer does not.21
The Board has held in many cases that employees with special
technical training will not usually be included in one unit with
ordinary production employees. In Matter of Northrop Corpora-S
tion,22 the inclusion in a plant unit of employees in the company's
engineering and production control departments was in issue. The
Board said:
Many of the men employed in the non-clerical portions of these two departments
are college graduates, and regard their positions as careers. The economic
interests of these workers and their relation to the company are on an
entirely different plane from those of the production workers.
The Board has accordingly held that normally 23 engineers and draftsmen,24
chemists, 23 and other technical employees, 26 should be excluded
from a plant unit.
Laboratory employees, by virtue of special training or the fact
that their work is entirely separate from that of other employees,
Matter of J. G. McDonald Chocolate Company, a corporation and Candy Workers'
Local No. 373, 5 N. L. R. B. 547.
• Matter of U. S. Testing Co., Inc. and Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists &
Technicians. C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 696; Matter of John Minder and Son, Inc. and Butchers
Union, "Local No. 174, 0 N. L. It. B. 764; and Matter of National Candy Company,
Veribrite Factory and Local 351 Candy Workers, affiliated with Bakery and Confectionery
Workers International Union of America (A. F. of L. Affil). 7 N. L. R. B. 1207
Compare Matter of Marks. Brothers Company and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local
Industrial Union No. 538, affiliated with the 0. I. 0. 7 N. L. R. B. 156, and Matter of
Keystone Manufacturing Company and United Toy arid Novelly Workers Local Industrial
Union No. 538 of the C. /. 0.. 7 N. L. R. B. 172, where the union desired the inclusion of
shipping room employees but the exclusion of stock room employees. The Board held
that both groups should be included in the appropriate unit.
22 Matter of Northrop Cdrporation and United Automobile Workers, Local No. 229, 3
N. L. R. B. 228.
See quotation from Matter of Tennessee Copper Company and A. F. of L. Federal
Union No. 21164, 5 N. L. R. B. 768, In section G 1 above.
▪ Matter of Northrop Corporation and United Automobile Workers, Local No. 229, 3
N. L. R. B. 228; Matter of Bartlett & Snow Company and The Bartlett & Snow Employees'
Association. Inc., and United 'Automobile Workers of America, 4 N. L. R. B. 113; Matter
of Westinghouse Airlwake Company and United Electric and Radio Workers of America,
Railway Equipment Workers Local No. 610, 4 N. L. R. B. 403; Matter of Todd Shipyards
Corporation. Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co., and Tietjen and Lang Dry Dock Co. and
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America ., 5 N. L. R. B. 20:
Matter of Marlin-Rockwell Corporation and Local No. 338, United Automobile Wo rkers of
America. 5 N. L. R. B. 206;• Matter of New Idea. Inc. and The A. F. of L.. 5 N. L. R. B.
381; Matter of Tennessee Copper Company and A. F. of L. Federal Union No. 81164,
5 N. L. R. B. 768; Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 16,57. 6 N. L. R. B. 780:
Matter of Keystone Manufacturing Company and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local
Industrial Union No. 538 of the C. I. 0., 7 N. L. R. B. 172; and Matter of Walker
Vehicle Company and the Automatic Transportation Company, divisions of the Yale tf
Towne Manufacturing Company and Walker-Automatic Independent Labor Association.
7 N. L. R. B. 827. See also : Matter of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company and
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America. Local 248. 4 N. L. R. B.
159. in wh 4ch a. separate unit for draftsmen and engineers was considered appropriate.
And comnare Matter of Atlantic Basin Iron Works and Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of America, Local No. 13, 5 N. L. R. B. 402, where the Board refused
to exclude all employees in the company's engineerin g department. in the abseme of
evidence as to the nature of their duties, but held : "If any cf the employees of this
department are engaged in technical or experimental work requiring special training
or skill, they will not he included in the same unit with the production and maintenance
employees. All employees of the engineering department whose duties do not involve
such special training or sill' will, however, be included in the unit."
26 Matter of Hoffman Beverage Company and Joint Local Executive Board of International
Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft Drink Workers of America, :3
N. B. R. B. .584; Matter of International Harvester Company Tractor Works and Farm
Equipment Workers Association, Division of A. A. I. S. & T. W. N. A., Lodge No. 1320.
0. /. 0.. 5 N. B. R. B. 102: Matter of Tennessee Copper Company and A. F. of L. Federal
Union No. 21164, 5 N. B. R. B. 768 : Matter or Armour 4 company and Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local Union No. 41.3, 5 N. B. R. B. 975
Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Am'algarnated Association of Iron, Steel. and
Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 1657, 6 N. L. R. B: 780; and Matter of Pennsylvania
Salt Manufacturing Company and Local Union. No. 19055 of District No. 50, United
Mine Workers of America, 3 N. B. R. B. 741; althou gh in the last-named case, one of
the chemists was an officer of one of the two unions involved, and another chemist had
joined the other.
2° Matter of Sunshine Mining Company and International Union of Mine, Mill, and
Smelter Workers, 7 N. L. R. B., No. 144,