The applicant trade union applied for certification and subsequently sought to amend its proposed bargaining unit to exclude the industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors.
The respondent employer and objecting employees opposed the amendment, arguing it amounted to gerrymandering and that the applicant, as a council of trade unions, could not apply independently.
The Board held that the applicant was entitled to apply under either section 144(1) or (3) of the Labour Relations Act and permitted the amendment, finding it was merely a contraction of the unit and not gerrymandering.
A Labour Relations Officer was authorized to inquire into the composition of the bargaining unit.
