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London, Ont. city employees grieve
after lack of input into work schedules
AN ONTARIO city's collective agreement that
required it to consider employees' expressions of
interest when assigning them work didn't limit its
ability to create the schedules in the first place.
The City of London, Ont. had a procedure un-
der its collective agreement in which it posted
schedules of work for employees in advance and
invited them to indicate their "expression of inter-
est" in the schedules. It then normally took those
preferences into consideration when finalizing
the schedules. However, in 2017, after it received
employees' expressions of interest, it simply
scheduled employees on one of the posted sched-
ules without any changes to it.
The collective agreement required the city to
properly post work schedules and provided for a
35-hour work week "of any five consecutive seven-
hour normal work days" during the Monday-to-
Saturday period. It also stipulated that the "nor-
mal work day will be scheduled on an eight-hour
Union drive
UFCW launches
organizing effort for
Uber Black employees
Ontario union worker's dishonesty
results in loss of employment
A WORKER with a key financial
role for a public servants' union
has lost her job for filing numer-
ous false and misleading claims
for benefits.
Danielle Chartrand started
working for the Canada Employ-
ment and Immigration Union
(CEIU) in July 2010 as the as-
sistant to the director of finance
and administration. In late 2015,
the director of finance went on a
leave of absence and Chartrand
took over some of the director's
duties, such as managing the
budgets, paying its credit cards,
ART MUSEUMS
Glenbow-Alberta Institute
Calgary
(84 museum employees) and the Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1645
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021.
Ratified on Aug. 28, 2019.
Signed on Sept. 16, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective July 1, 2019: 2.5%
Effective July 1, 2020: 2.5%
Shift premium: 12% for
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Construction Labour Relations Association of British Columbia —
British Columbia pg. 3 Calgary Roman Catholic School District No.
1 — Alberta pg. 4 Moore Canada — Ontario pg. 5 AltaGas Utilities
— Alberta pg. 6 Swissport Canada — British Columbia pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Marc
Bruxelle
(iStock)
see Several > pg. 8
see Workers > pg. 8
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