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National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 24, 2014

05-RC-130206 (N.L.R.B. Nov. 24, 2014)

Baltimore, MD
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
YOUR PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION
Employer
and
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO
ARTISTS, WASHINGTON-MID ATLANTIC
LOCAL, AFL-CIO
Petitioner
Case 05-RC-130206
DECISION AND DIRECTION
The National Labor Relations Board has considered challenged ballots and
objection in an election held July 30, 2014, and the hearing officer's report recommending
disposition of them. The election was conducted pursuant to a Decision and Direction of
Election. The tally of ballots shows 9 ballots cast for and 11 ballots cast against the
Petitioner, with 1 void ballot and 7 challenged ballots, a sufficient number to affect the
results.1
No exceptions have been filed to the hearing officer's report within the time
provided. Accordingly, the Board adopts the hearing officer's findings and
recommendations.2

1
Four of the challenged ballots were resolved by the parties.
2
The Hearing Officer recommended sustaining the challenges to the voting eligibility of Sheilah
Kast, and Daniel Rodricks because both are supervisors with the meaning of Section 2(11) of the
Act. He further recommended that the Petitioner’s challenge to Kyle Leslie’s voting eligibility be
overruled in its entirety, because Leslie is neither a supervisor nor a manager. The Hearing Officer
also recommended that the Petitioner’s lone objection should be overruled because the evidence is
insufficient to show that the Employer engaged in objectionable conduct.

DIRECTION
IT IS DIRECTED that the Regional Director for Region 5 shall, within 14 days of
this direction, open and count the ballot of Kyle Leslie, and thereafter prepare and serve
on the parties a revised tally of ballots, and issue the appropriate certification.
Dated, Washington, D.C. November 24, 2014.
By direction of the Board:
Farah Z. Qureshi
______________________________
Associate Executive Secretary