Section 95.1. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Act—The Public Employe Relations Act (43 P. S. § § 1101.101—1101.2301).

Board—The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.

Hearing examiner—A person appointed or designated by the Board to conduct a hearing.

Party—A person, employe, group of employes, organization or public employer filing a charge, petition, request or application under this chapter; a person, organization or public employer named as a party in a charge, complaint, request, application or petition filed under the act; or a person, organization or public employer whose intervention in a proceeding has been permitted or directed by the Board, secretary or a hearing officer. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to prevent the Board, or a designated officer from limiting participation by a party in the proceedings to the extent of his interest.

Petition—A petition for investigation and certification or decertification of a collective bargaining representative filed under the act and this chapter.

Showing of interest—A designated percentage of public employes in an allegedly appropriate bargaining unit, or a bargaining unit determined to be appropriate, who are members of an employe organization, who have designated it as their exclusive bargaining representative, or who have signed a petition requesting an election for certification or decertification of public employe representatives. The designations shall consist of written authorization cards or petitions, signed by employes and dated, authorizing an employe organization to represent the employes for the purpose of collective bargaining or requesting an election for certification or decertification of public employe representatives, current dues records or other evidence approved by the Board.

Unfair practice—A practice prohibited by the act.

The provisions of this § 95.1 adopted October 23, 1970, effective October 24, 1970, 1 Pa.B. 419.

Notation

Notes of Decisions

Parties

Employes who signed showing of interest were not ‘‘parties’’ who may advance petition for decertification in absence of original petitioner. In Re The Employes of Bradford County, 29 PPER (LRP) P29, 150 (1998).