Ontario Public Service Employees Union v. St. Joseph’s Health Care, London
0192-01-R Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Applicant v. St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Responding Party.
BEFORE: Caroline Rowan, Vice‑Chair, and Board Members J. A. Ronson and D. A. Patterson.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; May 15, 2001
Pursuant to the Board's direction of April 23, 2001, a representation vote was taken on April 25, 2001.
The Board has received correspondence dated April 27, 2001 from the applicant indicating that the applicant accepts the bargaining unit proposed by the responding party as appropriate.
Since there are no longer any outstanding issues, 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 St. Joseph’s Health Care, London employed in the medical laboratories, radiology departments, department of nuclear medicine, respiratory departments, electro-encephalograph departments, electro-cardiograph departments, bio-medical engineering departments, dental clinics, eye clinics, and pulmonary departments at Grosvenor, Mount Hope and Parkwood sites, at London, Ontario, as graduate registered therapists, graduate registered technologists, graduate registered technicians, graduate non-registered therapists, graduate non-registered technologists, graduate non-registered technicians, laboratory assistants and dental assistants; save and except managers, assistant managers, and persons above the rank of assistant manager, professional medical staff, physicists, radio-pharmacists, chemists, scientist assistant, laboratory scientists, researcher, flow cytometry specialist, senior scientist, bio chemists and others in positions similar to physicists, radio-pharmacists, chemists, scientist assistant, laboratory scientist, researcher, flow cytometry specialist, senior scientist and bio-chemists, department heads, intravenous therapy nurses, infection control officers, office and clerical staff (including in this exception: Nursing Unit Secretaries, admitting clerks, receptionists, service co-ordinators, safety and security officers, information clerks, mail clerks, cashiers, librarians, and switchboard operators), persons regularly employed for not more than twenty-four (24) hours per week, students employed during the school vacation period, and persons covered by subsisting Collective Agreements between St. Joseph’s Health Care, London and the Ontario Nurses’ Association and CAW-Canada.
Clarity Note: For purposes of clarity the term “Grosvenor Site” includes the operations and services provided by St. Joseph’s Health Care, London at the withdrawal management services, healthcare materials management services, family medical center and H.L.V. care program,
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.
“Caroline Rowan”
for the Board