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October 3, 2016

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PM #40065782 Labour Reporter Canadian www.labour-reporter.com October 3, 2016 Manitoba worker takes abandoned appliances without permission BY JEFFREY R. SMITH AN ARBITRATOR has upheld the dismissal of a Manitoba employee who denied knowingly stealing industrial appliances from the workplace. Leslie La'Frenais, 51, was a maintenance assistant for Boeing Canada in Winnipeg — the largest manu- facturer of airline parts in Canada — and he was hired in 1987. La'Frenais and his maintenance counter- parts sometimes worked without supervision and were relied upon to be honest in their work, since so much was riding on it. Each year, employees signed a code of conduct acknowledging the importance of acting with integrity and the consequences of dishon- est misconduct. La'Frenais' job duties included upkeep at the Boe- ing plant, such as painting, snow clearing, hanging paintings and general maintenance. Maintenance em- ployees had the least supervision of all because they ARBITRATION AWARDS Worker hurts shoulder, goes home, but gets terminated pg. 8 First Student Canada — Ontario pg. 3 Garda Security Screening — Alberta pg. 4 Port Coquitlam Transfer Company — British Columbia pg. 5 Sunrise School Division — Manitoba pg. 5 Swissport Canada Handling — Quebec pg. 6 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Photo: Worldpics (Shutterstock) pg. 2 USW sign hotels deal Workers in Sudbury, Ont., hotels sign deal with wage hikes, benefit boosts ARBITRATION AWARDS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS see Man > pg. 7 Nurse asked for fibromyalgia accommodation, was refused A NURSE afflicted with fibromy- algia was denied permanent day shifts because the hospital argued it wouldn't be fair to other workers. Evadnez Tang worked at Uni- versity Health Network in To- ronto as a post-operative nurse. She had been employed full-time since 2008 and worked on a four- week day shift, two-week night shift rotation. As a sufferer of fibromyal- gia, Tang had various sleep is- sues, which meant she was often PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION City of Belleville Belleville, Ont. (180 inside and outside employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 907 Renewal agreement: Effec- tive April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2019. Signed on Aug. 18, 2016. Wage adjustments: April 1, 2016: 1.5% April 1, 2017: 1.5% April 1, 2018: 1.7% Managing Unionized Environments, Nov. 1-3, 2016: Vic toria Living the Collective Agreement Mastering Fac t-Finding & Investigation, Nov. 15-18, 2016: Halifax Building Internal Capacity to Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints irc.queensu.ca see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8

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