University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital

Case Number: 03-UC-296081

Date Filed: 05/19/2022

Status: Closed

No. of Employees: 1800

Location: Rochester, NY

Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York

Unit Description: 5.A. PRESENT BARGAINING UNIT: Included: All regular full-time and regular part-time service employees including housekeeping employees employed by the University of Rochester at Strong Memorial Hospital, including: brace maker trainee; environmental service workers; environmental service working leader; cashier cafeteria; caterer-food service; cook I; cook III; cook helper; courier; work leader; dental assistant; dispatcher; driver; equipment assistant II; food service transporter; food service worker; nursing assistant; nutrition assistant; materials processing specialist; material processing specialist working leader; orthotic/prosthetic production assistant; orthotic/prosthetic production specialist; patient care technician; patient diet clerk; patient unit secretary; perioperative support associate; perioperative support associate, working leader; physical therapy aide; porter; processing aide; salad sandwich maker; senior nursing assistant; senior nursing assistant psychiatric; stock keeper A; stock (<eeper B; stock keeper, working leader; transport assistant; transportation center, working leader; truck driver; unit support assistant; and unit support assistant, working leader. Excluded: Clerical employees (including unit clerk and receptionist clerks I and II, not in unit management or in the In-patient division assistant category), registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, pharmacist, case workers, case aides, therapists, technicians, telephone operators, secretaries, security employees, maintenance employees, power house employees, gift shop employees, temporary employees, all University of Rochester students on the student payroll, all other students whose employment is related to a course of study requiring work training experience, all part-time employees regularly working a total of 1/5 of the regular fulltime workweek or less for the job classification in the department they work, confidential . employees, administrators, managerial employees, professional employees and supervisors as defined in the Act, and employees in other certified labor relations board bargaining units. 6.A. PROPOSED BARGAINING UNIT: Included: All regular full-time and regular part-time service employees including housekeeping employees employed by the University of Rochester at Strong Memorial Hospital, including: brace maker trainee; certified nursing assistants; environmental service workers; environmental service working leader; cashier cafeteria; caterer-food service; cook I; cook III; cook helper; courier; work leader; dental assistant; dispatcher; driver; equipment assistant II; food service transporter; food service worker; nursing assistant; nutrition assistant; materials processing specialist; material processing specialist working leader; orthotic/prosthetic production assistant; orthotic/prosthetic production specialist; patient care technician; patient diet clerk; patient unit secretary; perioperative support associate; perioperative support associate, working leader; physical therapy aide; porter; processing aide; salad sandwich maker; senior nursing assistant; senior nursing assistant psychiatric; stock keeper A; stock keeper B; stock keeper, working leader; transport assistant; transportation center, working leader; truck driver; unit support assistant; and unit support assistant, working leader. Excluded: Clerical employees (including unit clerk and receptionist clerks I and II, not in unit management or in the In-patient division assistant category), registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, pharmacist, case workers, case aides, therapists, technicians, telephone operators, secretaries, security employees, maintenance employees, power house employees, gift shop employees, temporary employees, all University of Rochester students on the student payroll, all other students whose employment is related to a course of study requiring work training experience, all part-time employees regularly working a total of 1/5 of the regular fulltime workweek or less for the job classification in the department they work, confidential employees, administrators, managerial employees, professional employees and supervisors as defined in the Act, and employees in other certified labor relations board bargaining units. 10. REASON WHY PETITIONER DESIRES CLARIFICATION: CNA is a new title at the facility and the work being performed by the CNAs is similar, or the same, as that performed by bargaining unit employees, including patient care technicians. CNAs share a community of interest with the bargaining unit employees.