National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation & General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada) v. University of Windsor
Parties
Applicant: National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation & General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada)
Responding Party: University of Windsor
Intervenor: Service Employees International Union, Local 210
Decision
Before: Caroline Rowan, Vice‑Chair, and Board Members J. A. Ronson and D. A. Patterson.
Decision of the Board: May 24, 2001
1Pursuant to the Board's direction of April 19, 2001, a representation vote was taken on April 23, 2001.
2No statement of desire to make representations has 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 April 19, 2001.
3Having regard to the agreement of the parties, the Board finds that:
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,
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.
“Caroline Rowan”
for the Board