0148-01-R National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation & General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), Applicant v. University of Windsor, Responding Party v. Service Employees International Union, Local 210, Intervenor.
BEFORE: Patrick Kelly, Vice‑Chair, and Board Members J. A. Rundle and D. A. Patterson.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; April 19, 2001
This is a displacement application for certification.
The Board finds that the applicant is a trade union within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (the “Act”).
The employees are currently represented by the intervenor.
It appears to the Board on an examination of only the information provided in the application and the information and membership evidence filed by the applicant (see section 8(3) of the Act), that not less than forty per cent of the individuals in the bargaining unit proposed in the application for certification were members of the union at the time the application was made. Further, this application appears to be timely.
The Board directs that a representation vote be taken of the individuals in the following voting constituency:
all clerical, secretarial and office employees employed by the University of Windsor at Windsor, Ontario, save and except: supervisors, and persons above the rank of supervisor; persons employed to undertake specific sponsored research projects; full and part-time officers of instruction together with instructors, sessional appointees, teaching assistants and postdoctoral fellows engaged in teaching and/or research; medical doctors and registered nurses; professional librarians; persons employed in the University Libraries holding the rank of department head or above; administrative assistants and research assistants and systems analysts and persons above such ranks employed in the University libraries; persons regularly employed for not more than twenty-four (24) hours per week; students; and persons engaged in the following positions: Secretary to the President; one (1) Secretary to each Vice-President; one (1) Secretary to each Assistant Vice-President; Secretary to the Associate Vice-President – Academic; Secretary to the Secretary and General Counsel of the University; Secretary to the Human Rights Commissioner; Secretary to the Clerk of the Senate; all staff Department of Human Resources; Secretary to the Assistant Director of Finance-Accounting and Systems; Secretary to the Assistant Director of Finance – Planning and Budgets; Programmers and Systems Analysts; Secretary to the Manager of Computing Services; Secretary to the Secretary of the Board of Governors; Secretary to the Registrar; one (1) Secretary to each Administrative Director and persons above the rank of Administrative Director; Special Assistants to Deans; Secretaries to the University Librarian; and Secretary to the Law Librarian; Telecommunications Supervisor; Assistant Registrars, Chauffeur; one (1) Operator, Word Processing; Institutional Analyst; and save and except persons covered by subsisting collective agreements with CAW Local 195; Service Employees International Union, Local 210 – Engineers; Service Employees International Union, Local 210 Part Time; Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 1393; and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 1001.
The vote will be held on April 23, 2001. Other vote arrangements will be as determined by the Registrar and set out on the attached "Notice of Vote and of Hearing".
All individuals who had an employment relationship with the responding party in the voting constituency on April 12, 2001, the certification application filing date, are eligible to vote. Employees having an employment relationship on April 12, 2001, the certification application filing date, include employees who were not at work on that date, so long as there is a reasonable expectation of their return to employment.
Voters will be asked to indicate whether they wish to be represented by the applicant or the intervenor in their employment relations with the responding party.
The responding party is directed to post copies of this decision and of the "Notice of Vote and of Hearing" adjacent to each of the posted copies of the "Notice to Employees of Application for Certification". These copies must remain posted for 30 days.
Any party or person who wishes to make representations to the Board about any issue remaining in dispute which relates to the application for certification, must file a detailed statement of representations with the Board and deliver it to the other parties, so that it is received by the Board within five days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays on which the Board is closed) of the date on which the vote is taken. Representations with respect to any status dispute must be made in accordance with the directions provided in Information Bulletin No. 4: Status Disputes in Certification Applications (Non-Construction).
The matter is referred to the Registrar.
“Patrick Kelly”
for the Board