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AN ONTARIO sawmill worker
deserved a suspension for vio-
lating a lockout policy, but it
should be reduced because the
employer didn't consistently
enforce the policy, an arbitrator
has ruled.
Ryam Forest Products oper-
ates a sawmill in Chapleau, Ont. It
employed Richard Groulx as a tilt
hoist operator. Groulx was hired
in 2017.
On Jan. 20, 2021, Groulx was
working at his station near the
planer lockout area. The planer
wasn't running because it was
shut down and locked out for its
Agreement ratified
Education workers in Quebec will see
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POWER GENERATION
Ontario Power Generation
Provincewide, Ontario
(6,711 maintenance employees) and the Power Workers' Union (PWU),
the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1000 (trades)
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2021 to March 31,
2022. Ratified in January 2021.
Signed on April 1, 2021.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2021: 1%
Paid holidays: 11 days plus
3 floating days for employees
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Worker > pg.7
Jailed Saskatchewan worker terminated for
inability to attend work due to incarceration
A SASKATCHEWAN company had just cause to
terminate a worker who was jailed for aggravated as-
sault, an arbitrator has ruled.
The 50-year-old worker was hired by Saskatoon-
based fertilizer company Nutrien in 2007 to be a
labourer at its Lanigan, Sask., potash mine. He pro-
gressed to the position of operator 1 in the mill op-
erations department.
On March 18, 2019, the worker's wife — from
whom he had recently separated — asked him to
stay with their 13-year-old twin daughters while she
went to work because they were feeling sick. The
worker asked one of his daughters for the password
to her mother's laptop computer. He started using
the laptop, but it was synchronized with his wife's
cellphone, giving him access to her emails and texts.
As a result, he saw messages between his wife and a
man she had started dating.
The worker angrily drove to the other man's office
in a nearby town. The man was alone and the worker
November 29, 2021
see Employer> pg.7
Canada Steamship Lines — Montreal pg. 3
North Island College — British Columbia pg. 4
SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions —
Alberta pg. 5 The Villa Leonardo Gambin
Centre— Ontario pg. 6
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Email: irc@queensu.ca
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Ill-advised shortcut deserves
shorter suspension: Arbitrator
