CUPE filed an application with the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (SLRB) July 2, 2019 to represent CBI Health Group residential and transitional care home workers in Saskatoon.
The SLRB has since forwarded the union’s application to CBI Health Group. The signed union cards remain with the SLRB and are kept confidential. Your Employer is not entitled to know who signed a union card. CBI Health Group has three business days to forward the list of employees – names, addresses, job titles and dates of hire – that matches CUPE’s bargaining unit description as outlined in our application. Your Employer also has ten (10) business days to issue a reply if they wish to challenge or comment on the union’s application in some way.
CUPE is confident with this second application that enough employees have signed union membership cards to trigger a secret ballot vote. Once CBI Health Group submits their list of employees to the SLRB, the union will have an opportunity to verify the accuracy of the list. If it is determined that at least 45 per cent of the employees of the proposed bargaining unit have signed cards, the SLRB will then initiate a secret ballot vote, which is typically a mail-in ballot.
Further updates will follow as they become available.