Ontario Labour Relations Board
1459-00-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. Atikokan General Hospital (Part Time Unit), 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
In a decision dated August 22, 2000, the Board determined this displacement application for certification was timely.
Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board further finds that:
all part-time employees of the Atikokan General Hospital at Atikokan, Ontario, who are employed part-time for not more than 24 hours per week, save and except professional staff, graduate pharmacists, undergraduate pharmacists, graduate dietitians, student dietitians, techinical personnel, supervisors, foremen, persons above the rank of supervisor or forman, chief engineer, stationary engineers, office staff and students hired for the school vacation period,
constitute a unit of employees of the responding party appropriate for collective bargaining.
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.
A certificate will issue to the applicant.
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.
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