Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Inc. d/b/a PPRM

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 16, 2018

27-RC-205940 (N.L.R.B. Apr. 16, 2018)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD,
INC. D/B/A PPRM
Employer
and Case 27-RC-205940
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL
UNION, LOCAL 105
Petitioner
ORDER
The Employer’s Request for Review of the Regional Director’s Decision and Direction of
Election is granted as to whether the Regional Director’s finding that the petitioned-for unit is
appropriate is consistent with Board precedent concerning petitioned-for multi-facility units. In
all other respects, the request for review is denied.
MARVIN E. KAPLAN, MEMBER
WILLIAM J. EMANUEL, MEMBER
Dated, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2018.
Member McFerran, dissenting.
I would deny review in all respects. Multi-facility employers are frequently complex and
sprawling entities, for which no one factor will neatly delineate an appropriate unit. In this case,
the Regional Director found appropriate a unit comprising the Employer’s northern- and central-
Colorado facilities by taking into account varied geographic, administrative, and workplace
factors. That unit consists of a reasonably, if not perfectly, distinct grouping of employees and is
one that affords the included employees a meaningful opportunity for collective bargaining. By
contrast, the Employer’s sole proposed unit here was employer-wide and included its Las Vegas,
Nevada facilities, which are over 700 miles distant from the Denver metropolitan area that is at
the core of the directed unit. In many, if not most, instances, such daunting geographic barriers
could be prohibitive to employees’ right to choose and engage in collective bargaining. Despite
the Employer’s failure to posit other alternatives, the Regional Director made an independent
unit determination that gave geographic proximity the weight it deserved alongside the other
relevant factors for multi-facility unit determinations.
LAUREN McFERRAN, MEMBER