STATE OF WASHINGTON
BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION
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In the matter of the petition of:
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL 483
Involving certain employees of:
CITY OF TACOMA
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CASE 25664-E-13-3793
DECISION 11785 - PECB
CERTIFICATION Cross-check by Agreement of Parties
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Alice Phillips, Business Agent for the petitioner, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 483.
Cheryl Comer, Deputy City Attorney, for the employer.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker, Local 483 (Local 483), filed a petition for investigation of a question concerning representation with the Public Employment Relations Commission, for the employees in the Telecommunications Supervisor, Assistant job class at the City of Tacoma. The petition was timely filed and accompanied by a showing of interest which was administratively determined by the Commission to be sufficient. No other organization is known to claim to represent the employees involved.
2. The existing bargaining unit represented by the Local 483 is described as:
All full-time and regular part employees of the City of Tacoma in the following job classifications: Customer Accounts Supervisor, Fire Electrical Maintenance Supervisor, and Traffic Field Operations Supervisor, excluding non-supervisory employees, confidential employees and all other employees.
3. All proceedings were conducted under the supervision of the Commission in a manner designed to afford the affected employees a free choice in the selection of whether they wished to be represented by the Local 483 in its existing bargaining unit. A confidential cross-check of employer and union documents has been conducted by the Commission staff and a tally of the results previously furnished to the parties is attached hereto; and no meritorious objections have been filed with respect to these proceedings.
4. The existing bargaining unit represented by the Local 483 shall be modified to include the Telecommunications Supervisor, Assistant job class for a bargaining unit described as:
All full-time and regular part employees of the City of Tacoma in the following job classifications: Customer Accounts Supervisor, Fire Electrical Maintenance Supervisor, Traffic Field Operations Supervisor, and Telecommunications Supervisor, Assistant, excluding non-supervisory employees, confidential employees and all other employees.
CONCLUSION OF LAW
The unit described in paragraph 4 of the foregoing Findings of Fact is an appropriate unit for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of RCW 41.56.060.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is
CERTIFIED
The Telecommunications Supervisors, Assistant, of the City of Tacoma have chosen:
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL 483
as their representative for the purpose of collective bargaining with their employer.
Issued at Olympia, Washington, this 12th day of June, 2013.
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION
MICHAEL P. SELLARS, Executive Director