The applicant and a group of employees applied to terminate the respondent union's bargaining rights.
The Board considered whether the petition supporting the application was voluntary, given that the employees were also shareholders bound by a shareholders' agreement to further common interests.
The Board found that the employees were motivated by their financial interests as shareholders threatened by the continuation of the union's bargaining rights, and not by the legal covenant in the agreement.
The Board concluded the petition was a voluntary expression of their wishes and directed the application to continue to determine if the signatories were employees in the bargaining unit.
