National Labor Relations Board v. Swift and Company, D/B/A New England Processing Unit

WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

This petition for enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board raises the question of the propriety of the Board’s certification of United Packinghouse Workers of America, Local 165, AFL-CIQ, as the exclusive bargaining representative of two separate groups of workers in the respondent’s Somerville, Massachusetts, division, called its New England Processing Unit.

The Union petitioned the Board under § 9(a) and (c) of the Act 1 for certification as the bargaining representative of all plant clerical employees, except professional employees and supervisors,…