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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
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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
