DECISIONS

Colville School District, Decision 12928 (PECB, 2018)

                                                       STATE OF WASHINGTON

                     BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Shannon Sehlin, Lead Organizer, for the Public School Employees of Washington.

Pete Lewis, Superintendent, for the Colville School District.

                                                            FINDINGS OF FACT

1.                  The Public School Employees of Washington filed with the Public Employment Relations Commission a petition concerning representation of the information technology employees at the Colville School District.  The petition was timely filed and accompanied by a showing of interest 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 Public School Employees of Washington is described as:

Included: all full-time and regular part-time classified employees of the Colville School District in the general job classification of custodian.

Excluded: supervisors, 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 Public School Employees of Washington in its existing bargaining unit.  An election has been conducted by 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 Public School Employees of Washington shall be modified to include the information technology employees for a bargaining unit described as:

All full-time and regular part-time classified technology and custodial employees of the Colville School District, excluding supervisors, confidential employees, and all other employees.

                                            CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

1.                  The unit described in finding of fact 4 is an appropriate unit for the purpose of collective bargaining within the meaning of RCW 41.56.060.

2.                  All conditions precedent to a certification have been met.

                                                               CERTIFICATION

The information technology employees at the Colville School District have chosen

                                  PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES OF WASHINGTON

as their representative for the purpose of collective bargaining with their employer.

ISSUED at Olympia, Washington, this  29th  day of October, 2018.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

MICHAEL P. SELLARS, Executive Director