REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT MODIFICATION – Accretion, Adding classification(s) to existing unit (PERB jurisdictions)

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UAW filed a unit modification petition seeking to add approximately 100 Math Fellows to the PX unit of about 6,700 Postdoctoral Scholars and Fellows (“Postdocs”) it exclusively represents. The Board affirmed the decision of PERB’s Office of the General Counsel to join UC-AFT, the exclusive representative of the IX unit, a second unit of UC employees primarily involved in teaching, as a party to the case pursuant to PERB Regulation 32164. Given that adding the Math Fellows would increase the IX unit by less than 10 percent, UC-AFT did not need to present proof of support before seeking to add the Math Fellows to that unit. (PERB Reg. 32781(e).) UC-AFT thus had a strong interest in ensuring that PERB, in processing UAW’s representation petition, did not mistakenly assign positions to the PX bargaining unit without UC-AFT’s participation in the case. Such an interest satisfies the standard set forth in Regulation 32164. (p. 16.)