Consider, if you will, a
multi-tower, multi-storie condominium complex under
construction in downtown Toronto (a stretch to be sure). An
employer has 50 employees working there, with each employee
working in multiple units, floors and towers each day.
Records are kept for most work that was planned, but not
always specifically identifying which workers did the work in each
individual unit or on each floor.
The employer receives an
application for certification on Wednesday at 4:55 pm at its
corporate offices in Markham, by which a construction industry
trade union has applied to represent a unit of its employees.
The office receptionist opens the package at 10 a.m. on Thursday,
realizes it seems important and runs it up the flag pole.
Just after noon the president and general counsel have seen it and
called the company's construction lawyers, who in
turn recommend Stringer LLP to assist. Now it's 12:30
p.m., the president calls a member of Stringer
