REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT DETERMINATION/CRITERIA (SEE ALSO WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE?, SECTION 200) – Supervisors

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Board looks to definition of supervisors in sec. 3540.1(m), not to job titles; pp. 7-8. Division chairpersons not supervisors because, contrary to other cases, here they are selected by and responsible to primarily other faculty and not to the administration, because they enjoy no special status, because they exercise little more authority than other faculty members and because they possess no effective authority in any of the statutorily described supervisory functions; pp. 8-11. In examining community college cases, Board will consider the dispersement of authority among faculty members that is typical in the tradition of collegially shared authority; p. 9. Sporadic exercise of supervisory functions with regard to non-unit personnel insufficient to exclude employees from certificated unit; p. 10.