Ontario Labour Relations Board
File No.: 1425-00-R Date: November 22, 2000
Between: National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. St. Joseph’s General Hospital, Elliot Lake, Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 204, Intervenor.
Before: Stephen Raymond, Vice-Chair, and Board Members J. A. Rundle and R. R. Montague.
Decision of the Board
1All representations that have been filed with the Board within the time fixed under Rule 62 of the Board's Rules of Procedure following the taking of the representation vote pursuant to the Board's direction of August 21, 2000 have now been resolved.
2For these reasons, the Board will issue a final decision in this matter.
3Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board further finds that:
all employees of St. Joseph’s General Hospital, Elliot Lake, save and except professional medical staff, graduate nursing staff, undergraduate nurses, graduate pharmacists, graduate dietitians, student dietitians, technical personnel, supervisors, persons above the rank of supervisor, office staff, persons regularly employed for not more than twenty-four (24) hours per week, students employed during the school vacation period and operating engineers covered by a subsisting collective agreement.
For the purpose of clarity the term “technical personnel” comprises physiotherapists, occupational therapists, electroencephalographists, electrical shock therapists, laboratory, radiological, pathological and cardiological technicians,
constitute a unit of employees of the responding party appropriate for collective bargaining.
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.
7Meeting and hearing dates set previously are hereby cancelled.
8The 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 until the date that had been set for the hearing.
“Stephen Raymond”
for the Board