Universal Workers Union, Labourers’ International Union of North America v. Primeline Plumbing Ltd.
File No.: 1990-01-R Date: November 16, 2001
Before: D. L. Gee, Vice-Chair, and Board Members J. G. Knight and G. McMenemy.
DECISION OF THE BOARD
1The Board is in receipt of correspondence dated November 15, 2001 from counsel for the responding party containing a request that this matter be scheduled for hearing to properly address the issue of the appropriate bargaining unit description. The Board ruled on this issue by way of a decision dated October 22, 2001. The Board denied an application for reconsideration of its October 22, 2001 decision by way of decision dated November 8, 2001. Accordingly, the Board has determined the issue of the appropriate bargaining unit and there is no need for a hearing to be held. There are no other issues that remain in dispute.
2In its decisions of October 22 and November 8, 2001, the Board found the following bargaining unit to be appropriate for collective bargaining:
all plumbers and plumbers’ apprentices in the employ of Primeline Plumbing Ltd. in all sectors of the construction industry excluding the industrial, commercial and institutional sector in the City of Toronto, the Regional Municipalities of Peel and York, the Towns of Oakville and Halton Hills and that portion of the Town of Milton within the geographic Townships of Esquesing and Trafalgar, and the Towns of Ajax and Pickering in the Regional Municipality of Durham and the Regional Municipality of Durham (except for the Towns of Ajax and Pickering), the geographic Township of Cavan in the County of Peterborough and the geographic Township of Manvers in the County of Victoria, save and except non-working foremen and persons above the rank of non-working foreman.
3On 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.
4A certificate will issue to the applicant.
5The 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.
6The responding party is directed to post copies of this decision immediately, adjacent to the "Notice of Vote and of Meeting" posted previously. These copies must remain posted for a period of 30 days.
"D. L. Gee"
for the Board