Confidential employees are excluded from union membership. Usually the secretary to the personnel manager, the executive secretary to the administrator or secretaries to senior department heads in large organizations are considered confidential employees. Defining management Employees whose normal duties are substantially involved in the management decision-making process are considered to be management. Management is excluded from union membership. Organizing your union There are two ways to unionize for collective bargaining rights.
Certification is the most common.
The other, voluntary recognition by employers, is much less common. A signed union card is your first step toward defining yourselves as a member of a bargaining unit and securing collective bargaining rights. The union then submits the signed cards to the Labour Relations Board, providing that at least 40 percent of the employees in your unit want to join. This is called making an Application for Certification. The Labour Board requires that the cards be signed by the person applying for membership.