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VIL PRINWYLES ESTABLISHED 85the wishes of the only union involved, has found that these employeesconstitute a single appropriate unit. Thus, the Board has designateda noncraft unit of employees in the editorial department of a newspaper,since the evidence showed sufficient relationship in the work ofthe employees in the unit." The Board has also established a unitcomposed of several but not all of the departments of an employer,where such a unit existed among the employees of other employers inthe same industry and the employees included in it had sufficient interdependenceof interests. 51 In another case, a multicraft unit wasselected by the Board, since the employees had shown their approvalof such a unit and the past history of organization and bargaininghad not been along strict craft lines. 52 Finally, the Board has grantedan industrial unit if the only union involved desired such a unit andhad bargained collectively on this basis."In certain instances where the unit proposed by the union is not inaccord with the history of collective bargaining and relates to certaingroups of employees who, because of their skill or work, are normallynot included in or excluded from a bargaining unit, the Board hasheld that the desires of these employees should determine their inclusionor exclusion. Thus, when an industrial union desired toinclude office workers with production and maintenance employees,the Board directed a separate election to ascertain the desires of theoffice workers. 54 In Matter of Hoffman, Beverage Co. and Int.Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, Local No. 55,55 the Board hadpreviously designated a unit comprising all the employees. Subsequentlythe industrial union ceded the firemen and engineers to theirrespective craft unions. The Board established separate units forthe firemen and engineers, respectively, as there were similar units inthe industry and the firemen and engineers desired such units.The Board will not designate a unit, desired by a labor organization,which varies widely from the unit ordinarily sought by theunion and has no relationship to the skill and work of the employees,or the history of collective bargaining. Thus in Matter ofEl Paso Electric Co. and Local Union 585, Int. Brotherhood ofElectrical TV orkers 56 the Board refused to establish five separateunits,. each covering one department, since the union desired to bargainjointly for all five departments and had bargained and obtainedcontracts covering all five departments as one unit. The Boardbe Matter of Weekly Publ ications, Inc. and Newspaper Guild of New York. 8 N. L. R. B. 76.51 Matter of Times Publishing Co. and The Newspaper Guild of Detroit, 8 N. L. R. B.1170.03 Matter of Hamilton Realty Corp. and Local Joint Executive Board of Hotel & RestaurantEmployees Int. Anionic, 10 N. L. It B 858 (Board fou-d approrriate a unit incIrting(1) restaurant and kitchen employees ; (2) bartenders ; and (3) hotel service empl gyees ;each of whom bad own o rganization; the employees had authorized a joint board representing the three organizations to bar gain collectively for them).53 Matter of B. F. Sturtevant Co. and United Electrical and Radio Workers Local IndustrialUnion No. 243, 8 N. L. R. B. 825. Matter of The Hanson-Whitney Machine Co. andInt. Union, United Automobile Workers or Amer.. Local No. 428, 8 N. L. R. B. 153(Board rejected company's contention that each of its employees was a specialist in hisparticular task so that the segregation of any employees into an appropriate unit wasimpassible).14 Matter of The Electric Auto-bite Co. and Int. Union. United Automobile Workers ofAmerica Loral No. 1'. 9 N. L. R. B. 147; Matter of Willys Overland Motors, I,o. andInt. Union. United Automobile Workers of Amer., Local No. 12, 9 N. L. R. B. 924. Cf.Matter of Louis We i nberg Assoc iates. Inc. and Unit,d Wholesale and Warehouse Employ 65. 13 N. L. R. B. No. 9. footnote 4. infra.-ees. Local No."8 N. L R B. 1267. Cf. Matter of Hamilton Realty Corp. and Local Joint ExecutiveBoard of Hotel d Restaurant Employees Int. Alliance. 10 N. L. It. B. 858, footnote 52,.0 13 N. L. R. B., No. 28.