Ernesto Arduini

The applicant employers' association applied for accreditation to represent employers engaged in low-rise concrete forming in the residential sector.

The applicant and the responding union agreed on the bargaining unit description.

Intervenor employer associations argued the unit should be broader, encompassing all employers bound by various residential sector collective agreements, to reflect contemporaneous bargaining practices.

The Board found that the proposed unit reflected the existing, stable bargaining structure and was viable for collective bargaining.

The Board determined the proposed unit was appropriate and directed notice to employers.

The Board considered a referral of a grievance to arbitration and a complaint over an assignment of work regarding concrete forming work at the Kipling Acres Home for the Aged.

The parties disputed whether the work was in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector.

The Board decided to defer further consideration of the matters until February 16, 1987, to allow an Industrial Inquiry Commissioner to attempt to mediate a resolution to the broader dispute between the Metropolitan Toronto Apartment Builders' Association and various unions over concrete forming work.