Parties
3709-99-PS Canadian Health Care Workers, Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Centre and Empoyees International Union (SEIU), Service Employees International Union, Local 220 (SEIU Local 230), Responding Parties v. Ontario Nurses Association, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 772, Intervenors.
3693-99-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Centre – St. Joseph’s Hospital, Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 220, Intervenor.
3694-99-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Centre – St. Joseph’s Hospital, Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 220, Intervenor.
3695-99-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Centre (Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care), Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 220, Intervenor.
3696-99-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Centre (Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care) (Part-time Employees), Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 220, Intervenor.
BEFORE: Patrick Kelly, Vice-Chair
DECISION OF THE BOARD; April 6, 2000
Decision
1The Board is in receipt of correspondence dated April 5, 2000 from counsel for the Canadian Health Care Workers (“CHCW”). Counsel’s attention is drawn to Rule 33 of the Board’s Rules of Procedure which obliges all parties to deliver copies of documents to all other parties.
2Counsel refers to CHCW’s previous requests for intervenor status in certification displacement applications brought by the Canadian Auto Workers: Board Files 3693-99-R; 3694-99-R; 3695-99-R; 3696-99-R (“the displacement applications”). Counsel notes that the CHCW has not been advised of the status of its request for intervenor status in the displacement applications, although counsel advises that subsequent to its request for intervenor status, the CHCW has filed intervention applications in each file without having seen any of the documents filed in those matters. Counsel contends that the issues outstanding in the displacement applications may have a direct effect on the CHCW application in Board File 3709-99-PS (“the CHCW application”), and particularly with respect to the agenda for the Labour Relations Officer meetings scheduled for April 13 and 14, 2000 in connection with that application. Counsel requests that those meetings be adjourned until the CHCW’s request for status in the displacement applications is determined, and its request for copies of the documents in those displacement application files provided by the Board.
3Assuming, without deciding, that the CHCW may have status in the displacement applications, the Board directs the Registrar to provide copies of all filed documents in the displacement applications forthwith to counsel for the CHCW.
4The Board is not prepared to determine the issue of CHCW’s status in the displacement applications at this time. That is a matter that can be determined by the panel or panels of the Board assigned to the hearings of the displacement applications scheduled by the Registrar. The Board directs the Registrar to provide notice of any such hearings to CHCW and its counsel.
5The Board is not prepared to grant an adjournment of the scheduled meetings in the CHCW application without the consent of all the parties.
“Patrick Kelly”
for the Board