Union certified for construction trades; Board refuses to exclude casual employees from the bargaining unit.
The applicant trade union applied for certification to represent unrepresented trades employed by the respondent in Board Area #5.
The respondent requested that casual employees who regularly work outside the area be excluded from the bargaining unit.
The Board declined to depart from its long-standing practice of not distinguishing between casual and regular employees in the construction industry.
Finding that more than fifty-five percent of the employees in the appropriate bargaining unit were members of the applicant, the Board ordered that a certificate issue.
Labourers' International Union of North America, Local 837 v. Freure Homes Limited, 1983 CanLII 855