The applicant union applied for certification to represent a bargaining unit of paramedics.
After the application was filed, the respondent employer and an intervenor union entered into a voluntary recognition agreement covering the same employees.
The intervenor and employer argued this agreement barred the certification application.
The Board held that the timeliness of a certification application is assessed at the time it is made, and subsequent actions by an employer and a rival union cannot render a timely application untimely.
The Board directed that a certificate issue to the applicant union.
