DECISION AND ORDER ON PETITION FOR CLARIFICATION OF UNIT
Petitioner, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO (“Petitioner” or “NABET”), has filed with the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance (“the Board”) a petition to include by clarification certain temporary employees in the following unit of employees of the Office of Communications Media, of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (“OCM”), for which the Petitioner was certified as the exclusive representative by the Board on May 7, 1997:
All nonsupervisory, permanent employees of the Office of Communications Media, including employees in the following positions: Senior Camera Operator, Camera Operator, Technical Director, Senior Audio Specialist, Audio Specialist, Character Generator Operator, Electronic Technician, Production Engineering Specialist, excluding the Staff Assistant and those employees excluded by statute.
Office of Communications Media, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, Employing Office and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Communications Workers of America, AFL-C/O, Case No. 96-LM-2 (March 17, 1997), at 4-5 (March 17, 1997). In the foregoing Decision and Direction of Election, the Board found that the temporary employee position in the OCM was vacant at the time of the pre-election investigatory hearing and therefore that it was inappropriate to make a determination regarding the inclusion or exclusion of the position in the unit. See id at 3- 4.
In the instant clarification case, the NABET and OCM have agreed to waive an investigatory hearing and have submitted a written stipulation as constituting the factual record on which to review the petition. Pursuant to the stipulation, the parties agree that the certified unit should be clarified to include the following addition:
Any individual(s) hired to fill one of the five temporary Production/Engineering Specialist positions within the Office of Communications Media approved by the Committee of House Oversight with the expectation that said temporary positions(s) will be encumbered for 30 working days or more within the 12 month calendar year of employment.
