Frontier Communications Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Nov 30, 2017

19-UC-200458 (N.L.R.B. Nov. 30, 2017)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
Employer
and Case 19-UC-200458
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF
ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL 89
Petitioner
ORDER
The Petitioner’s Request for Review of the Regional Director’s Decision and
Order is denied as it raises no substantial issues warranting review.1
LAUREN McFERRAN, MEMBER
MARVIN E. KAPLAN, MEMBER
WILLIAM J. EMANUEL, MEMBER
Dated, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2017.

1 We agree with the Regional Director that there have been no recent, substantial
changes sufficient to merit consideration of a unit clarification petition that seeks to
accrete a group of employees who have been historically excluded from the bargaining
units at issue. See Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, 337 NLRB 1061, 1061 (2002) (“The
Board will not entertain a unit clarification petition seeking to accrete a historically
excluded classification into the unit, unless the classification has undergone recent,
substantial changes”) (citing Bethlehem Steel Corp., 329 NLRB 243, 244 (1999));
United Parcel Service, 303 NLRB 326 (1991). Accordingly, we need not reach the
Regional Director’s application of the “overwhelming community of interest” accretion
test.