The applicant Carpenters union filed a jurisdictional dispute complaint regarding the assignment of tending work for scaffolding erection at a restoration project.
The employer, Aluma, had assigned the work of providing scaffolding materials to its carpenter employees to an apprentice carpenter.
The Labourers union claimed the work.
The Board considered area practice, employer preference, and other factors.
Finding that the area practice in Board Area 21 strongly favoured assigning tending work to labourers, the Board declared that the tending work (excluding unloading and initial placement) should have been assigned to a member of the Labourers.
