The applicant union sought certification for a bargaining unit of carpenters employed by the respondent in the construction industry.
The central issue was whether several employees should be classified as carpenters or labourers, given that they performed multiple types of work.
The majority of the Board relied on the respondent's coding system to determine that only four employees spent the majority of their time performing carpentry work during the representative period.
Because the union only filed membership evidence for one of those four employees, it lacked the requisite 45% support, and the application was dismissed.
A dissenting Board member argued that the coding system was unreliable and would have found sufficient membership support to grant certification.
