The applicant union alleged that a sale of a business occurred when the predecessor hospital transferred its laboratory services to the successor hospital.
The hospitals conceded the sale but argued that the operations and employees were intermingled, justifying the termination of the union's bargaining rights.
The Board found that intermingling had occurred and that the union's proposed bargaining unit, limited to the 'stat' laboratory at the predecessor hospital, was not appropriate due to the integration of the services.
Given that the unionized employees constituted a small minority of the successor's paramedical staff, the Board declined to order a representation vote and declared the union's bargaining rights terminated effective the date of the sale.
