New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration v. Public Employee Labor Relations Board

This is an appeal from the Public Employee Labor Relations Board’s (PELRB) certification of a bargaining unit within the department of revenue administration under RSA ch. 273-A (Supp. 1975). After an extended course of negotiations between the department and the State Employees’ Association (SEA), which sought the certification, the board unanimously included within the unit eleven employees that the department sought to exclude — six as supervisory personnel, RSA 273-A: 8 II (Supp. 1975), and five as confidential employees. RSA 273-A: 1 IX(c) (Supp. 1975). In its appeal, the department…