Appeal of Town of Conway

*373Memorandum

This is an appeal by the Town of Conway from the July 31, 1980 order of the New Hampshire Public Employee Labor Relations Board certifying certain members of the Conway Police Department as a bargaining unit under RSA 273-A:8 I. The board excluded from the unit five part-time patrolmen, the chief, a lieutenant, and a detective sergeant. It included in the unit three sergeants and ten patrolmen, five of whom were probationary employees. The town argues that the probationary employees should not have been included within the unit. We agree.

RSA 273-A:8 I requires the board to certify a…