Big Bend Community College, Decision 13096 (PSRA, 2019)

STATE OF WASHINGTON

BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Jason Holland, Organizing and Research Specialist, for Washington Public Employees Association.

M. Kate Garcia, Senior Counsel, Attorney General Robert W. Ferguson, for the Big Bend Community College.

Findings of Fact

1.                  The Washington Public Employees Association filed a representation petition concerning employees of the Big Bend Community College. The Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) determined the petition was timely filed and accompanied by a sufficient showing of interest. No other organization claimed to represent the employees involved.

2.                  The bargaining unit is described as follows:

All full-time and part-time employees of the Custodial Services Department and Building and Grounds Department at Big Bend Community College, excluding supervisors, confidential employees, and all other employees.

3.                  Because more than 50 percent showing of interest threshold was met, PERC conducted card-check proceedings. The employees were given a free choice in the proceedings. The tally of results was provided to the parties. No meritorious election objections have been filed.

Conclusions of Law

1.                  The unit described in finding of fact 2 is an appropriate unit within the meaning of RCW 41.80.070.

2.                  Representation proceedings were conducted in accordance with RCW 41.80.070 and chapter 391‑25 WAC.

certification

Big Bend Community College employees in the bargaining unit described in finding of fact 2 have chosen

WASHINGTON PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION

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

ISSUED at Olympia, Washington, this  12th  day of November, 2019.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Michael P. Sellars, Executive Director