Certification Basics
This process determines whether employees wish to be represented by a union.
What is certification?
Membership evidence must be signed within this time before an application is filed.
What is six months?
Certification votes must generally be conducted within this many days.
What is five days?
This objection argues that certification would lead to unviable collective bargaining.
What is an appropriateness objection?
The Board is best described as this type of body.
What is a quasi-judicial tribunal?
Applications must use forms that correspond to this governing document.
What is the Labour Relations Code?
This type of membership card is acceptable if it includes an audit trail.
What are electronic membership cards?
Most votes are now conducted using this method.
What is electronic voting (Simply Voting)?
These objections relate to who should or should not be counted for threshold or voting.
What are inclusion or exclusion objections?
This section of the Code relaxes the rules of evidence.
What is section 124?
Under section 142, applications must clearly describe this.
What is the bargaining unit (or employees to be added)?
Using this to “fix” deficient cards is no longer accepted by the Board.
What are statutory declarations?
Officers provide this report before the hearing.
What is the Officer’s Report?
The Board considers whether employees have sufficient, continuing interest for this purpose.
What is determining eligibility to vote?
This Board process is used extensively to resolve disputes early
What is informal dispute resolution?
The Board avoids certifying a single classification unless it meets specific criteria, such as being traditionally this.
What is “difficult to organize”?
Cards may be rejected if dates or signatures are this.
What is unclear or illegible?
Hearings are typically scheduled for one of these two times of day.
What are 9:30 a.m. or 1:00 p.m.?
In construction, eligibility may depend on whether someone worked within this prior time period.
What is the prior 30 days?
Under section 74, participation in mediation is this.
What is voluntary?
The Board’s primary concern when reviewing bargaining unit descriptions.
What is whether the parties have a mutual understanding of who is included?
These cards occur when a union card doesn’t match the employer’s payroll list.
What are orphaned cards?
Employers are required to post this notice in the workplace.
What is the Notice to Employees (or Notice of Poll)?
Even when threshold isn’t affected, disputes about inclusion are often addressed here instead of delaying certification.
What is collective bargaining?
This type of application can end an active strike or lockout.
What is a section 55 application?