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March 29, 2021

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PM #40065782 AN ARBITRATOR has denied reinstatement to a Canadian Pa- cific Railway (CPR) employee in British Columbia who was fired after falsifying inspection re- cords and misreporting his time worked. Darren Miller was a signal and communications maintainer for CPR. On March 3, 2020, the assistant director of signal and communications operations was conducting a safety walkabout in the area around Salmon Arm, B.C. He searched the GPS track- er for employee vehicles and saw that Miller's truck was in the Clerical workers join CUPE After 3-month delay, 357 Mount Sinai employees get nod from OLRB to join union STEEL PRODUCTION Oerlikon Metco (Canada) Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. (27 production employees) and Unifor, Local 530-A Renewal agreement: Effec- tive April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2023. Ratified on March 20, 2020. Signed on March 10, 2020. Wage adjustments: Effective April 1, 2020: 1.5% Effective April 1, 2021: 2% Effective April 1, 2022: 2.75% Shift premium: 1 overtime shift of pay when employee's see Collective agreements > pg. 3 Photo: shaunl (iStock) see Position > pg.7 Sunwing Airlines pilot grounded after off-duty domestic assault of coworker A CANADIAN airline had just cause to fire a pilot who was charged with assaulting a coworker while off-duty and failed to advise his employer of the charges. The 40-year-old worker was a captain with Sun- wing Airlines. He first joined Sunwing in 2007 as a first officer. In the fall of 2019, the worker began a romantic relationship with a first officer who was also with Sunwing. They both became based in Calgary in November 2019 and bid for a December schedule that would allow them to work together during the peak December holidays and have the same time off. They were scheduled to work together from Dec. 21 through Dec. 25 with matching days off from Dec. 18 to 20. However, on Dec. 9, the worker and the first of- ficer had a serious argument. Things escalated and the flight officer called the police, who arrested the worker and charged him with assault. The worker March 29, 2021 see Captain> pg.7 ZF Canada — Ontario pg. 3 Skookum Jim Friendship Centre — Yukon pg. 4 Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, Southern Alberta — Alberta pg.5 1107989 Ontario o/a NUTRA 2000 — Ontario pg.6 Photo: JHVEPhoto (iStock) Upcoming 2021 Virtual Labour Relations Programs Strategies for Workplace Conicts / Feb. 23-26 (11:30am-5pm ET) Change Management / Mar. 9-12 (12pm-4pm ET) Mastering Fact-Finding & Investigation / Apr. 19-23 (10am-4:30pm ET) More programs & dates available. Visit us at: irc.queensu.ca Register today! FEB 2021.qxp_Layout 1 2021-01-27 11:09 AM Page 1 ARBITRATION AWARDS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS pg. 2 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Railway worker dismissed for wasting time, falsifying records

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