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NY PRIVATE SECTOR DECISIONS
Volume 50 - January 30, 1996 to November 27, 2002
ALFRED GRONER d/b/a TWENTY TWO FORTY ASSOCIATES, OWNER AND SDG MANAGEMENT CORP., AGENT AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO SERB certified SEIU 32E, AFL-CIO as the representative a one-person unit following a hearing during which the sole employee in the unit testified that he wanted such representation. One month later, the employer filed a motion for reconsideration of the certification based upon a document purportedly signed by the employee stating he did not want to be represented. SERB denied the employer's motion stating that the best means for determining employee choice is through a secret ballot election or through a hearing in the case of a one-person unit. In this case, the employer failed to participate in the hearing which led to the certification although it was on notice of the hearing. In denying the motion, SERB stated: "Allowing certifications to be set aside because employees have purportedly changed their mind would destabilize the bargaining process in an unacceptable way and would potentially expose bargaining unit members to constant pressure to abandon their actual desires." (50 SERB 4, Case No. SE-59005, 2/12/96)
210 EAST BROADWAY OWNERS CORP., OWNER AND CASSIS MANAGEMENT CORP., AGENT AND LOCAL 32B-32J, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO A motion to add the managing agent to the caption of representation petition was granted. The managing agent was on notice of the petition, was served with a copy of the hearing notice, participated in the hearing and made post-hearing submissions. In its decision, SERB held that the building owner and managing agent were joint employers under SERA noting that "[i]t is our practice in building service cases to find building owners and their agents to be joint employers." (50 SERB 9, Case No. SE-59013, 3/27/96)
NAPLES EQUITIES L.P., OWNER AND METRO U.S. MGMT. CORP., AGENT AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO The employer declined to stipulate that a one-person unit was appropriate. In its decision, SERB held that one-person units were appropriate and noted that such units had been found appropriate for over fifty-years both by itself and its predecessor, the Labor Relations Board with the courts' approval. (50 SERB 12, Case No. SE-59075, 5/21/96)
BEAUCHAMP GARDEN OWNERS CORP. AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO SERB accepted the recommendations and adopted the opinion in the intermediate report of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) concluding that the employer had not unlawfully discharged a building superintendent for engaging in union activity in order to defeat unionization in violation of §§704.4 and 704.5 of the State Employment Relations Act (Act); and concluding that the employer had not engaged in an unfair labor practice in violation of §704(6) of the Act by failing or refusing to commence negotiations with the union. The evidence demonstrated that the employee had been notified of his discharge prior to joining the union and that the effective date of his discharge was prior to the employer's receipt of the bargaining demand. (50 SERB 23, Case Nos. SU-58986, SU-59039, 7/31/96)
OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC. AND OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE STAFF ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 2300, UAW Prior to the election, the union sought a unit consisting of all full time and regular part time employees while the employer sought to exclude the accounting manager and the administrative assistant on the grounds that they were both confidential employees. The union disputed the employer's factual basis for these claims. The subsequent election was held with the "confidential" and non-confidential employees placed in separate units. A majority in the non-confidential unit voted in favor of representation while the votes of the "confidential" unit were challenged by the employer. However, no objections to the election were filed. The employer also argued that since one of the "confidential" positions was abolished after the election, the remaining one person unit was in appropriate for certification. In its decision, SERB held that confidential employees are covered by SERA and that one person units have consistently found appropriate. SERB certified the union as the representative of the non-confidential unit employees and directed that the challenged ballots of the alleged confidential employees be counted. (50 SERB 30, Case No. SE-59162, 11/21/96)
OGDEN HJR CORP., OWNER AND RUTH MANAGEMENT L.L.C., AGENT AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO, PETITIONER AND FACTORY AND BUILDING EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL 187, INTERVENOR SERB found that the record was unclear as to whether a purported contract between the Intervenor and the employer was executed prior to the employer's receipt of a letter from the Petitioner notifying it of the Petitioner's claim of representation status. SERB therefore concluded that the purported contract was not a bar to the proceeding and it certified petitioning union as the exclusive representative of a unit consisting of the incumbent building superintendent. (50 SERB 40, Case No. SE-59291, 4/29/97)
MOUNT KISCO MIDDLE INCOME HOUSING CORP. AND WESTCHESTER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO SERB accepted the recommendations and adopted the opinion in the intermediate report of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) concluding that the employer engaged in an unfair labor practice in violation of §§704.6 of the State Employment Relations Act (Act) by failing to commence negotiations. The evidence established that the employer never agreed to attend a negotiating session, although the union requested that it do so, and that the employer never accepted or rejected the union's contract terms or made any proposals of its own. The employer's defense of a claimed lack of understanding of the recognition process was rejected, as was the employer's claim that the filing of a refusal to bargain charge relieved the employer of any further obligation to bargain. (50 SERB 65, Case No. SU-59359, 5/4/98)
264 EAST 199TH STREET REALTY CORP., OWNER AND PNC ENTERPRISES, INC., AGENT AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO The employer asserted that the building superintendent was an independent contractor and not an employee. In its decision, SERB credited the building superintendent's testimony that he was paid on a regular basis and found that the record established that the building superintendent was an employee under the Act. (50 SERB 96, Case No. SE-59617, 11/18/98)
RAMAPO TOWERS OWNERS CORP. AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO. SERB overruled an employer's challenge to a ballot cast by an employee terminated following the representation election concluding that events that take place following an election are not relevant to eligibility. (50 SERB 130, Case No. SE-59850, 6/29/00)
HALE RICKMAN AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32B-J, AFL-CIO SERB rejected an employer's objection to a previously issued certification for a single person unit concluding that the qualifications and part-time status of the at-issue employee, and the employer's financial condition, are not relevant to the question of representation (50 SERB 142, Case No. SE-59917, 6/12/01)
300 LINDEN LLC AND LOCAL 32B-32J, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO SERB dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, a petition filed by the employer under §705 of the Act concerning a question of representation regarding a single person unit consisting of a building superintendent in an apartment building in Brooklyn. Under the jurisdictional standards of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRB will assert jurisdiction over apartment houses that receive at least $500,000 in gross revenue annually. Since the parties stipulated that the employer has received over $500,000 in gross revenues during the last 12 months, SERB found that the employer is subject to NLRB jurisdiction. Even though the NLRB, unlike SERB, does not entertain petitions where, as here, the bargaining unit consists of a single employee, the prohibition against SERB's assertion of jurisdiction exists because States cannot contravene federal labor policy. (50 SERB 144, Case No. SEE-59925, 9/17/01)
ST. AGATHA'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH SOCIETY AND DIOCESAN ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SERB found, based on the union's own formal, written acknowledgment, that it no longer represents a majority of employees in the appropriate unit. Therefore, based on the union's own admission, SERB found that the employer is under no duty currently to recognize or bargain collectively with the union and, conversely, the union is no longer entitled to those rights reserved to representatives selected by a majority of the employees under the Act. (50 SERB 145, Case No. SEE-59936, 9/21/01)
CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND LAY FACULTY ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 255, L.I.U.N.A. SERB denied exceptions filed by the employer to an intermediate report issued by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) finding that the employer had engaged in unfair labor practices in violation of §704(6) of the State Employment Relations Act (Act), but had not engaged in unfair labor practices in violation of §§704(5) and (10) of the Act. SERB accepted the recommendations and adopted the opinion of the ALJ finding that the totality of the employer's conduct constituted an unlawful refusal to bargain. However, SERB modified the ALJ's finding that the refusal to bargain commenced on May 22, 2001. Instead, SERB found that the refusal to bargain commenced on or about August 1, 2001 because a provision in the collective bargaining agreement insulated the employer from any finding of unlawful refusal to bargain prior to August 1, 2001 and the employer had not waived this contractual protection by entering into negotiations at an earlier time. (50 SERB 149, Case Nos. SU-59946, SU-59958, 7/31/02)
334 EASTERN PARKWAY REALTY LLC AND LOCAL 32BJ, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO SERB dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, a petition filed by the employer concerning a question of representation regarding a single person unit consisting of a building superintendent at an apartment building in Brooklyn. Although SERB found that the apartment building alone would not be subject to NLRB jurisdiction as it falls just below that standard, SERB concluded that the managing agent for the building is a joint employer who manages at least ten other properties that far exceed the NLRB's jurisdictional standards. (50 SERB 150, Case No. SEE-59987, 9/9/02)
334 EASTERN PARKWAY REALTY LLC AND LOCAL 32BJ, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO SERB denied the employer's motion for reconsideration of a prior decision dismissing its petition for lack of jurisdiction. The employer asserted that the record was insufficient to support SERB's jurisdictional finding. However, SERB reiterated that the prior testimony of the management employee concerning the size and number of buildings managed by the employer made it overwhelmingly clear that, whatever the total amount of the employer's annual revenue, it exceeded the NLRB's monetary jurisdictional standards. (50 SERB 151, Case No. SEE-59987, 9/26/02)
ST. BONAVENTURE SCHOOL AND DIOCESAN ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SERB terminated its investigation on the employer's decertification petition by adopting the certified bargaining agent's admission that it did not represent a majority of the employees in the appropriate bargaining unit. (50 SERB 152, Case No. SEE-59993, 10/10/02)
STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY TELEVISION AND NABET, CWA, AFL-CIO SERB granted the employer's motion to dismiss a representation petition after the National Labor Relations Board determined that it had jurisdiction over the question of representation. (50 SERB 153, Case No. SE-60008, 11/26/02)
OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC. AND OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE STAFF ASSOCIATIONS, LOCAL 2300, UAW Options For Independence Staff Assn., Local 2300, UAW was certified as the exclusive representative for a unit composed of the full time and regular part time employees in the employer's office located at 75 Genesee Street, Auburn, New York, excluding the accounting manager, the administrative assistant, and the executive director, following a secret ballot election. (50 SERB 30, Case No. SE-59162, 11/21/96)
OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC. AND OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE STAFF ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 2300, UAW Options For Independence Staff Assn., Local 2300, UAW was certified as the exclusive representative for a two person unit composed of the accounting manager and the administrative assistance in the employer's office at 75 Genesee Street, Auburn, New York following a secret ballot election. (50 SERB 34, Case No. SE-59162, 12/12/96)
1990 ELLIS AVENUE CORP., OWNER AND O'S MANAGEMENT, AGENT AND SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 32E, AFL-CIO SEIU, Local 32E, AFL-CIO was certified as the exclusive representative for a single person unit composed of the building superintendent in the apartment building at 1990 Ellis Avenue, Bronx, New York after the incumbent superintendent testified at a hearing that he wanted such representation. (50 SERB 127, Case No. SE-59834, 3/21/00)
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