REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT MODIFICATION – Accretion, Adding classification(s) to existing unit (PUC transit district units)

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PERB does not apply an “overwhelming community of interest standard” to a transit union’s attempt to accrete unrepresented employees into an existing unit. (Cf. Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc. (2005) 344 NLRB 1270, 1271.) Community of interest is determined by the totality of circumstances. (Monterey Peninsula Community College District (1978) PERB Decision No. 76, p. 13.) In determining whether a community of interest exists, we do not “go[] down a check list” of these factors but rather ascertain whether employees share a substantial mutual interest in matters subject to meeting and negotiating. (Ibid.)