Hospital Employees' Division of Local 79 v. Flint Osteopathic Hospital

MERC’s determination that the appropriate unit for both the employees represented by AFSCME and the employees represented by SEIU is a hospital wide unit does not leave the dietary employees represented by SEIU in limbo until the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement between AFSCME and the hospital. Until expiration of that agreement, the dietary employees, as MERC may determine, may, with or without a self-determination election, either become an addition to the AFSCME bargaining unit or, as a separate temporary unit, bargain with the hospital for a collective bargaining…