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

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Determination of lack of supervisory status based upon totality of evidence presented. Sergeants did not possess or exercise independent judgment when administering disciplinary action, but rather ordered in accordance with the superior's opinion. Including 59 contested positions would have resulted in 100 persons supervising 197 non-supervisors, sufficient distinction from Grayhound case (NLRB) where 121 dispatchers supervised 3,000 drivers, to hold different conclusion. Mere potential to resolve informal grievances, is insufficient to support finding of supervisory status, and evidence showed day-to-day disputes were reconciled by sergeants, not as agents for the employer, but as co-workers concerned with reducing disruption of the work environment. MOU between the parties does not make sergeants but as co-workers concerned with reducing disruption of the work environment. MOU between the parties does not make sergeants