REPRESENTATION ISSUES; SEVERANCE – In General

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State information technology employees do not share a community of interest separate and distinct from the rest of existing State Bargaining Unit 1, and that the history of representation requires severance of these employees in a separate bargaining unit. Petitioner has not rebutted presumption that the existing unit is more appropriate than the proposed unit. Petitioner also failed to establish that a conflict of interest exists between the interests of information technology employees and non-information technology employees that precludes it from effectively representing both groups.