The applicant union applied for certification.
The employer and the intervener employee association argued that an existing collective agreement barred the application.
The Board found that the association lacked a constitution and evidence of employees being bound together by agreement, concluding that the association had ceased to exist as a trade union.
Consequently, the purported collective agreement was not a valid bar to the application.
The Board directed further hearings on the bargaining unit composition and a petition of objection.
