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April 24, 2017
B.C. forest technicians
twice denied recall to jobs
TWO WORKERS at the Skim-
ikin Seed Orchard (SSO) in Brit-
ish Columbia were twice denied
recalls in 2015, despite being
ready and willing to work.
Cindy Anderson and Alle
Palmer worked at the Ministry
of Forests, Lands and Natural
Resources as forest technicians.
They were regularly laid off in the
fall or winter, and then recalled
back to work in the spring of the
following year.
But on two occasions in 2015
Toronto recreation worker
feels targeted by management
Salary reduction,
bereavement-leave denial
contributed to acrimony
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO arbitrator has dismissed a
City of Toronto worker's claims that wage
restructuring and relocation were part of
a campaign of racial discrimination and
harassment against him.
Phillip Johnson was born in Trinidad and
came to Canada in 1967. He became employed
as a part-time recreation worker for the City of
Toronto in 2001.
In February 2011, Johnson picked up a bottle of
what he thought was glass cleaner, but the bottle
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Lafarge Canada Winterburn Shop — Alberta pg. 3 University of Regina
— Saskatchewan pg. 4 The Corporation of the City Of Vaughan — Ontario
pg. 4 Victoria Airport Authority — British Columbia pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
olyamatyash
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
PSAC workers sign
More than 100,000
employees of Treasury Board
accept new labour
agreements
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Social worker terminated from job during probationary period pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
see Employer > pg. 7
TRANSPORTATION
City of Red Deer
Red Deer, Alta.
(150 transit, maintenance workers) and Amalgamated
Transit Union (ATU), Local 1374
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2017.
Signed on Aug. 31, 2016.
Shift premium: $1.25 per hour
(previously $1.20 per hour) for
all hours worked between 6
p.m. and 6 a.m. and all hours
on a Saturday. For all hours
worked on Sunday, 1.25 times
the regular rate. $0.45 per hour
