The applicant union applied for certification to represent a municipal-wide bargaining unit of employees of a cleaning contractor in the City of London.
The responding party employer argued for a site-specific bargaining unit covering only ten specific locations, citing concerns about flexibility in bidding on future contracts.
The Board applied its established test for determining appropriate bargaining units, noting a strong aversion to fragmentation and a presumption that broader, municipal-wide units are generally appropriate unless they cause serious labour relations problems.
The Board found the employer's proposed unit inappropriate, particularly as it would have excluded a single employee at an eleventh site, and certified the union for the municipal-wide unit.
