Board grants certification for a plant-only bargaining unit, finding no serious labour relations problems.
The applicant union sought certification for a bargaining unit of employees at the employer's manufacturing plant.
The employer argued that the appropriate unit should include employees at both its plant and its distribution yard, located 1.8 kilometres away, asserting that a plant-only unit would cause serious labour relations problems due to employee interchange and operational interdependence.
The Board found that the level of employee interchange was not significant or regular enough to cause serious labour relations problems if restricted.
The Board determined that the plant-only unit was appropriate and, finding that more than 55 percent of the employees in the unit were members of the union, ordered that a certificate issue.
IWA - Canada v. Kent Trusses Limited, 1994 CanLII 9905
