REPRESENTATION ISSUES; SEVERANCE – In General

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Preferencing the largest feasible unit with a community of interest, the principal unit determination criterion, means that a severance petition fails unless the history of collective bargaining shows that the employees at issue in the severance petition no longer have a community of interest with their colleagues in the broader unit(s). Furthermore, a severance petitioner’s burden is significant not only because of the preference for larger units, but also based on an equally important preference for stability in labor relations. (Los Rios Community College District (2018) PERB Decision No. 2587, p. 4 [noting that “a stable negotiating relationship will not be lightly disturbed”]; City of Livermore (2017) PERB Decision No. 2525-M, adopting proposed decision at p. 38 [same].) (pp. 24-25.)