1601-00-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. Sault Area Hospitals (Plummer Memorial Public Hospital and Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital) (Full Time Unit), Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 268, Intervenor.
BEFORE: Patrick Kelly, Vice-Chair, and Board Members J. A. Ronson and D. A. Patterson.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; December 29, 2000
There do not appear to be any remaining issues in dispute in this displacement application for certification.
Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board further finds that:
all employees of Sault Area Hospitals at Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District, save and except professional medical staff, graduate nursing staff, undergraduate nurses, graduate pharmacists, undergraduate pharmacists, graduate dietitians, student dietitians, technical personnel, supervisors, persons above the rank of supervisor, foremen, persons above the rank of foreman, chief engineer, office staff and persons regularly employed for not more than 24 hours per week 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.
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