- May 24, 2021
- Certifications/Decertifications
Application for certification. The employer raised three objections: (1) that the unit applied for was not appropriate for collective bargaining because it combined the house crew and casual employees; (2) that the local made the application when the employee complement was unrepresentative of the normal workforce because it had been swelled by casuals on the date of application; (3) and that the Board should exercise its discretion to deny voting privileges to casual employees employed on the date of the application because they were “unrepresentative” of the core workforce. The Board found that the unit applied for was appropriate for bargaining. It is generally appropriate that house crews and casual employees be covered by one collective agreement. The employee group was not grossly unrepresentative of the group that would ultimately be represented by the local. Nor (for the same reason) would it be appropriate to exclude the casual employees for the purpose of the vote.