Ontario Labour Relations Board
0826-00-R Service Employees International Union Local 183, Applicant v. Kawartha Participation Projects, Responding Party.
BEFORE: Patrick Kelly, Vice-Chair, and Board Members J. A. Rundle and R. R. Montague.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; July 6, 2000
Pursuant to the Board's direction of June 16, 2000, a representation vote was taken on June 20, 2000.
The Board has received representations dated June 21, 2000 from the responding party. Having considered these representations, we are satisfied that the responding party has raised no allegations which, even if proved true, would change the result of the application.
The responding party objected to the inclusion on the voter’s list the names of nine employees who the parties agreed were not to be included in the bargaining unit. These nine employees did not cast ballots, and the responding party’s objection has no bearing on the vote results.
For these reasons, the Board will issue a final decision in this matter without a hearing.
Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board finds that:
all employees of Kawartha Participation Projects in Peterborough, Haliburton, Victoria & Northumberland Counties, save and except supervisors, persons above the rank of supervisor, registered nurses and registered practical nurses working in a nursing capacity, office and clerical and superintendent(s),
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.
Meeting and hearing dates set previously are hereby cancelled.
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 until the date that had been set for the hearing.
“Patrick Kelly”
for the Board