Bus drivers vote in Rochester, but NLRB seals ballots

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By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review
19 September 2007
ROCHESTER - The National Labor Relations Board has sealed and not counted the ballots cast in a union election Tuesday among employees of Rochester City Lines.

"We ran the election and impounded ballots," reported Robert W. Chester, regional director of the NLRB, because the employer has challenged the regional NLRB decision about which employees should be included in the bargaining unit.

The question will go to the full NLRB in Washington, D.C., for a decision, Chester said. "My hope is they will get to it this week or next."

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 filed a petition to represent 47 bus drivers and two dispatchers who work for Rochester City Lines to operate local bus service in Rochester.

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