The applicant union applied under sections 2 and 4 of The Successor Rights (Crown Transfers) Act following the transfer of two sewage treatment plants from the Crown to the City of Timmins.
The applicant, which represented the City's outside workers, argued that the transferred employees should be accreted to its existing bargaining unit.
The Board found that there was no intermingling between the transferred employees and the City's existing employees.
Emphasizing that the purpose of the successor rights legislation is to preserve rather than extinguish bargaining rights, the Board declined to alter the bargaining structure.
The Board declared the City a successor employer and affirmed that the intervener union continued to represent the transferred employees.
