National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada) v. St. Joseph’s General Hospital, Elliot Lake
File No.: 1426-00-R Date: November 27, 2000
Applicant: National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW-Canada) Responding Party: St. Joseph’s General Hospital, Elliot Lake Intervenor: Service Employees International Union, Local 204
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, Ontario, regularly employed for not more than twenty-two and one half (22-1/2) hours per week and students employed during the school vacation period, save and except supervisors, persons above the rank of supervisor, professional medical staff, graduate and undergraduate nurses, graduate and student dietitians, graduate and undergraduate pharmacists, technical personnel, office and clerical staff and persons covered by subsisting Collective Agreements.
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