1456-00-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. Nipigon District Memorial Hospital , Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 268, Intervenor.
BEFORE: Timothy W. Sargeant, Vice‑Chair, and Board Members J. A. Rundle and D. A. Patterson.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; November 29, 2000
1. In a decision dated November 2, 2000, the Board determined this displacement application for certification was timely.
2. Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board further finds that:
all employees of Nipigon Disrict Memorial Hospital regularly employed for not more than 22 ½ hours per week, save and except professional medical staff, graduate nursing staff, undergraduate nurses, graduate pharmacists, undergraduate pharmacists, graduate dietitians, technical personnel, supervisors, foremen, persons above the rank of supervisor or foreman, office staff, students employed during the school vacatiion period,
constitute a unit of employees of the responding party appropriate for collective bargaining.
3. On the taking of the representation vote directed by the Board, more than fifty per cent of the ballots cast by employees in the bargaining unit were cast in favour of the applicant.
4. A certificate will issue to the applicant.
5. The Registrar will destroy the ballots cast in the representation vote taken in this matter following the expiration of 30 days from the date of this decision unless a statement requesting that the ballots should not be destroyed is received by the Board from one of the parties before the expiration of such 30 day period.
6. The responding party is directed to post copies of this decision immediately, adjacent to all copies of the "Notice of Vote and of Hearing" posted previously. These copies must remain posted for a period of thirty days from the receipt of the decision.
“Timothy W. Sargeant ”
for the Board