3838-99-R Carpenters and Allied Workers Local 27, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Applicant v. Top Vinyl & Aluminum Contracting Inc., Responding Party.
BEFORE: David A. McKee, Vice‑Chair, and Board Members J. G. Knight and
G. McMenemy.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; March 29, 2000
This is an application for certification filed under the construction industry provisions of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (the "Act").
The Board finds that the applicant is a trade union within the meaning of sections 1(1) and 126 of the Act and is an affiliated bargaining agent of a designated employee bargaining agency. Pursuant to the designation issued by the Minister under section 153(1) of the Act on June 23, 1997, the designated employee bargaining agency is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the Ontario Provincial Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
The responding party filed a response. Pursuant to that response the name of the responding party is amended to read “Top Vinyl & Aluminum Contracting Inc.” If the applicant disagrees with this name, it is to advise the Board at the regional certification meeting. The responding party disputes that the persons in the bargaining unit are properly described as carpenters, but does not proposed any other trade classification. In the construction industry, the Board certifies a unit in terms of a trade description. The Board has, on previous occasions, found that persons performing the work of installing aluminum siding fall within a bargaining unit of carpenters and carpenters apprentices, e.g. Aspen Aluminum Ltd., [1991] OLRB Rep. Nov. 1253. In any event, since all the sites listed in the application are residential sites, there is no reason not to proceed with the vote, and to permit the parties to make their submissions about the proper bargaining unit description at the regional certification meeting.
It appears to the Board on an examination of only the information provided in the application and the information and membership evidence filed by the applicant (see section 8(3) of the Act), that not less than forty per cent of the individuals in the bargaining unit proposed in the application for certification were members of the union at the time the application was made.
The Board finds that this is an application for certification within the meaning of section 128 of the Act and is an application made pursuant to section 158(1) of the Act which provides that:
An application for certification as bargaining agent which relates to the industrial, commercial and institutional sector of the construction industry referred to in the definition of "sector" in section 126 shall be brought by either,
(a) an employee bargaining agency; or
(b) one or more affiliated bargaining
agents of the employee bargaining agency,
on behalf of all affiliated bargaining agents of the employee bargaining agency and the unit of employees shall include all employees who would be bound by a provincial agreement together with all other employees in at least one appropriate geographic area unless bargaining rights for such geographic area have already been acquired under subsection (2) or by voluntary recognition.
The Board further finds, pursuant to section 158(1) of the Act, that all carpenters and carpenters’ apprentices in the employ of the responding party in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector of the construction industry in the Province of Ontario and all carpenters and carpenters’ apprentices in the employ of the responding party in all other sectors of the construction industry in the City of Toronto, the Regional Municipalities of Peel and York, the Towns of Oakville and Halton Hills and that portion of the Town of Milton within the geographic Townships of Esquesing and Trafalgar, and the Towns of Ajax and Pickering in the Regional Municipality of Durham; the Regional Municipality of Durham (except for the Towns of Ajax and Pickering) the geographic Township of Cavan in the County of Peterborough and the geographic Township of Manvers in the County of Victoria; the Towns of Cobourg and Port Hope, and the geographic Townships of Hope, Hamilton, Haldimand and Alnwick in the County of Northumberland; the County of Peterborough (except for the geographic Township of Cavan) the County of Victoria (except for the geographic Township of Manvers) and the provincial County of Haliburton, save and except non-working foremen and persons above the rank of non‑working foreman, constitute a unit of employees of the responding party appropriate for collective bargaining.
Having regard to the Board's finding as to the appropriate bargaining unit, the Board directs that a representation vote be taken of the individuals in the following voting constituency:
all carpenters and carpenters’ apprentices in the employ of Top Vinyl & Aluminum Contracting Inc. in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector of the construction industry in the Province of Ontario and all carpenters and carpenters’ apprentices in the employ of Top Vinyl & Aluminum Contracting Inc. in all other sectors of the construction industry in the City of Toronto, the Regional Municipalities of Peel and York, the Towns of Oakville and Halton Hills and that portion of the Town of Milton within the geographic Townships of Esquesing and Trafalgar, and the Towns of Ajax and Pickering in the Regional Municipality of Durham; the Regional Municipality of Durham (except for the Towns of Ajax and Pickering) the geographic Township of Cavan in the County of Peterborough and the geographic Township of Manvers in the County of Victoria; the Towns of Cobourg and Port Hope, and the geographic Townships of Hope, Hamilton, Haldimand and Alnwick in the County of Northumberland; the County of Peterborough (except for the geographic Township of Cavan) the County of Victoria (except for the geographic Township of Manvers) and the provincial County of Haliburton, save and except non-working foremen and persons above the rank of non‑working foreman.
The vote will be held on March 31, 2000 . Vote arrangements are set out on the attached "Notice of Vote and of Meeting".
The responding party is directed to post copies of the application for certification, the “Notice to Employees of Application for Certification”, this decision and the "Notice of Vote and of Meeting" in a location or locations where they are most likely to come to the attention of those individuals who are eligible to vote.
All individuals who were employed by Top Vinyl & Aluminum Contracting Inc. and at work in the voting constituency on March 22, 2000 are eligible to vote.
Voters will be asked to indicate whether or not they wish to be represented by the applicant in their employment relations with the responding party.
Any party or person who wishes to make representations to the Board about any issue relating to the application for certification which remains in dispute, other than status disputes, must file a detailed statement of representations and all material facts upon which they rely with the Board and deliver it to the other parties, so that it is received within five days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays on which the Board is closed) of the date on which the vote is taken. Representations with respect to any status dispute must be made in accordance with the directions provided in Information Bulletin No. 9: Status Disputes in Certification Applications in the Construction Industry.
This matter is referred to the Registrar.
“David A. McKee”
for the Board