Opinion ID: 560347
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Card majority

Text: 66 The Board has the authority to issue a category II bargaining order even where it is clear that the union, which once had possession of cards from a majority of the employees, represents only a minority when the bargaining order is entered. Gissel, 395 U.S. at 610, 89 S.Ct. at 1938. There is no dispute here that the union had a card majority for at least a brief period. Avecor argues that we should not impose a bargaining order where the majority was so ephemeral. 67 The duration of the card majority depends on whether the Board includes the two disputed clerical employees in the bargaining unit. Excluding them both, as the ALJ did, produces a majority that lasts for all but four days of the two-month pre-election period. With one of them in the unit and one outside it, the majority's lifespan shrinks to twelve days. With both of them in the unit, the majority survives for just one day. 68 We have no inkling of where the Board will place the two employees. Gissel, though, instructs us that the Board must only make a showing that at one point the union had a majority. Id. at 614, 89 S.Ct. at 1940. That showing has been made. We are unaware of any requirement that the card majority must survive for a particular duration in order to support a bargaining order, and we decline to introduce one here. 69