Minor variations in a union's name do not defeat the statutory presumption of trade union status.
The applicant union applied for certification.
The Registrar noted minor differences in punctuation and spelling between the applicant's name and the name previously found to be a trade union by the Board.
The Board held that minor, non-substantive differences in a union's name do not deprive it of the rebuttable evidentiary presumption of trade union status under section 105 of the Labour Relations Act.
The Board found the applicant to be a trade union and directed the Registrar to amend the trade union status records accordingly.
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Local Union 46 v. Pioneer Mechanical Limited, 1989 CanLII 3115