How can bargaining unit be determined

The executive director or the director's designee conducting unit merger proceedings may administer oaths and may require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses, the production of books, records and other evidence relating to the issues presented to the executive director or the director's designee.

A bargaining unit composed of a majority of supervisors may not merge under this subsection with any other bargaining unit. A bargaining unit composed of teachers may not merge under this subsection with a bargaining unit of nonprofessional employees. PL , c. The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal advice, please consult a qualified attorney.

Maine Government. Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment Such hearing may be conducted by an officer or employee of the regional office, who shall not make any recommendations with respect thereto.

If the Board finds upon the record of such hearing that such a question of representation exists, it shall direct an election by secret ballot and shall certify the results.

In any election where none of the choices on the ballot receives a majority, a run-off shall be conducted, the ballot providing for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of valid votes cast in the election.

Application for order that bargaining agent not entitled to represent bargaining unit. Rinearson and Andrew M. Adler What is an organization required to do in Europe if it engages in Zetoony Computing on the Edge by: Robert M.

Kamer and Aubrey A. Slack and Peter A. Paolillo and Ellen L. Mitchell and F. Delaney and Kristina M. Kahlon and Aron C. Thomas and Michael P.

Neifach and Otieno B. Porzio and Joshua S. Bryan What a Deal! Ferrante and Nathaniel M. Porzio and Elizabeth A. Article By. Steven M. As a result of the strike, workers protected their health care benefits and won a substantial pay raise in the form of base wage increases and an accelerated progression to top pay for newer workers. A challenge faced by the UAW and other unions in their respective industries is when employers try to evade the terms of the collective bargaining agreement by establishing new operations outside the scope of the agreement.

Seven different UNITE HERE locals in seven locations—Detroit, Boston, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Hawaii—bargained separate contracts, but because the prior collective bargaining agreements expired at the same time, the workers had more leverage than they would have had if they had been bargaining in a single location.

In the aerospace manufacturing and services industry, the Machinists Union bargains major national contracts with Boeing and Lockheed Martin that establish standards for the industry that the Machinists seek to achieve at other manufacturers. Unions will sometimes negotiate a master contract with an employer or an employer association and then insist that newly organized employers sign on to the master agreement rather than negotiating an individual agreement.

This arrangement is commonplace in the construction and entertainment industries, but is also used by other unions in other industries. See examples of multi-employer bargaining below. Unions in several industries have bargaining relationships with groups or associations of employers—an arrangement that allows them to negotiate wage and benefit standards across an industry or geographic area.

The industry with the most widespread practice of multi-employer bargaining is the construction industry. By long-standing practice and tradition, unions in the building trades bargain multi-employer master agreements with employer associations in their craft, and employers, including newly organized employers, adopt the master agreement often by signing letters of assent agreeing to be bound by the master agreement. Most of these agreements are bargained locally or regionally by the individual construction unions with their counterpart employer associations.

Bargaining is streamlined by the national IBEW and NECA through the development of standard contract language that is approved by both national organizations. In addition, the national building trades unions, through their trade department at the AFL-CIO, bargain national agreements with contractors for both construction and maintenance projects. For example, currently there are national building trades agreements covering maintenance projects in 34 states involving signatory employers.

Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union SEIU offers a compelling example of what workers and their unions are able to accomplish when they have density and bargaining power. The union—which represents workers in 12 states and Washington, D. Recently, the union completed negotiations for approximately 75, commercial building cleaners up and down the East Coast. The New York City agreement alone covers 22, commercial cleaners. In other words, by way of example, in the New York City agreement, employers in New York City agree to abide by the collective bargaining agreement in Philadelphia if they have operations in Philadelphia.

In the recent bargaining, SEIU Local 32BJ won substantial wage increases, improvements in pensions, new protections against sexual harassment, and more. Employers also agreed to a union recognition process for cleaners in Miami, opening the door to extending collective bargaining protections to another 1, building cleaners in that city. Bargaining used to cover more grocers, but because of mergers in the industry, only two major chains—Ralphs and Albertsons—now participate in the bargaining.

In the fall of , the union was able to reach an agreement covering 46, workers at more than stores. The agreement provided for wage increases, preserved health care benefits, guaranteed more hours, and helped close the wage differential between job classifications. A challenge for the union is when unionized grocers enter into partnerships and other business arrangements with new entities and use them to erode bargaining unit work—by, for example, contracting out work that would be done by bargaining unit members to companies like Instacart—or when unionized grocers create lower labor standards for chains in food deserts, as Kroger did with its Food 4 Less subsidiary.

The Machinists Union has several regional multi-employer agreements covering hundreds of auto dealerships and auto repair shops in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and other cities. These agreements set wages and benefits for thousands of employees. The Teamsters have a long-established multi-employer bargaining relationship with the Cannery Council, an association of food processors with operations in central California, including Del Monte and Heinz.

For example, the Machinists Union has negotiated with both a government contractor and subcontractor at the table and won agreements that cover employees of both employers. Unions have also been able to win better working terms and conditions for workers through campaigns for local city ordinances. The union then won recognition as the representative of 1, Prospect Airport Services and PrimeFlight Aviation Services employees who work as baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants, cabin cleaners, and more.

The union was able to build on the minimum standards established by the ordinance and, in their first collective bargaining agreement, win provisions that exceed the requirements of the paid sick day ordinance.