Board of Trustees v. Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board

In March 1990, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 339 (Union), filed a petition with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (Board) on behalf of the building service supervisors (BSSs) and building service foremen (foremen) employed in the Housing Division (Residential Services) (hereafter Housing Division) at the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois (University). The petition sought to include BSSs and foremen within a bargaining unit of Housing Division employees represented by the Union. In August 1990, a hearing officer for the Board found that…