Labourers’ International Union of North America v. Azor Woodworking Ltd.
File No.: 0922-00-R Date: August 14, 2000
Before: Mary Ellen Cummings, Alternate Chair, and Board Members G. Pickell and A. Haward.
Decision of the Board
1This is an application for certification in the construction industry. The applicant has applied for a bargaining unit comprised of all carpenters and carpenters apprentices in the employ of the responding party in Board Area 8 in all sectors of the construction industry other than the ICI sector. The work identified as given rise to the application is trim carpentry.
2By decision dated July 19, 2000, the Board directed that notices with respect to this application be posted in the workplace, because the Board was not satisfied that these proceedings had been brought to the attention of the affected employees. By letter dated August 3, 2000, counsel for the applicant provided a completed Form A-76, Confirmation of Posting, with respect to the notices the Board had directed.
3In its decision of June 28, 2000, the Board found the following bargaining unit to be appropriate for collective bargaining:
all carpenters and carpenters’ apprentices in the employ of Azor Woodworking Ltd. in all 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, excluding the industrial, commercial and institutional sector, save and except non-working foremen and persons above the rank of non-working foreman.
4On 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.
5A certificate will issue to the applicant.
6The 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.
7The responding party is directed to post copies of this decision immediately, adjacent to the "Notice of Vote and of Meeting" posted previously. These copies must remain posted for a period of 30 days.
“Mary Ellen Cummings”
for the Board