Sheila Ruth Block

The complainant union, Local N-1, filed a jurisdictional dispute complaint seeking the assignment of its members to work on a newly installed Harris N-900 web offset press.

The employer had assigned the work to members of the respondent union, Local 211.

The Board considered factors including skill and training, employer practice, area practice, and collective agreement provisions.

Finding that the offset process requires specific skills that Local 211 members possessed through experience and training, and noting the employer's historical assignment of offset work to Local 211, the Board confirmed the employer's assignment of the work to Local 211.