The applicant union applied for certification to represent a bargaining unit of registered and graduate nurses, seeking to carve them out from an existing all-employee bargaining unit represented by the incumbent union.
The Board declined to exercise its discretion under section 6(3) of the Labour Relations Act to permit the carve-out, finding no evidence that the incumbent union had failed to adequately represent the nurses and noting that the nurses had received a 48% pay increase over the period of representation.
The application was dismissed.
