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June 12, 2017
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Corporation of the
City of Vaughan
Vaughan, Ont.
(220 inside, outside workers) and Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 905.20
Renewal agreement: Effect-
ive April 1, 2016, to March 31,
2020. Signed on June 28, 2016.
Shift premium: $0.95 per hour
(previously $0.85 per hour) for
work between 11 a.m. and 9
p.m. $1.05 per hour (previously
$0.95 per hour) for work be-
tween 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. Crew
leader: $1 per hour.
Paid holidays: 11 days (pre-
viously 10 days), plus 1 floater
day. Last days before Christmas
Day and New Year's Day will be
considered half-holidays with
pay.
Vacations with pay: 80 hours
to start, 120 hours after 3 years,
160 hours after 8 years, 200
hours after 14 years, 208 hours
Food factory worker fired
after too many smoke breaks
A CLEANER was terminated
for improperly opening exterior
doors during multiple cigarette
breaks when he was discovered
taking too much downtime dur-
ing his overnight shift at a factory
of a food manufacturer.
The worker, identified as "D.B.,"
was dismissed on June 23, 2016,
after another employee noticed
some discrepancies on the com-
pany access card records. They
showed him exiting the premises,
but not re-entering using his pass
card.
An investigation of the security
videotapes showed D.B. would of-
ten prop open the doors to take a
smoke break and on one occasion
he urinated outside the company's
door, which was in full view of the
public.
(The company and the union
agreed not to disclose the compa-
ny's name due to its reputation as
a "manufacturer of food products
sold in provincial, interprovincial,
and international markets").
Case reconsidered after worker fired
for hiding medical marijuana use
IBEW appeals ruling
to Supreme Court
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
A NEWFOUNDLAND and Labrador worker
who was fired for failing to disclose his use of med-
ical marijuana is having his case sent back to arbi-
tration for reconsideration on whether there was
sufficient cause for dismissal.
Brandon Uprichard, 37, was hired by Valard
Construction — a utility contractor based in
Edmonton — in April 2015 to be a structural as-
sembler for the transmission line of the Lower
Churchill Project, also known as the Muskrat Falls
Project, in Labrador. Uprichard had worked pre-
viously on transmission line projects for Valard in
Alberta and British Columbia.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Horizon Air Industries — British Columbia pg. 3 Brandon University —
Manitoba pg. 4 Altalink — Alberta pg. 4 Children's Aid Society of the
Niagara Region — Ontario pg. 5 Inland Concrete — Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Thomas
Morris
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
Union slams school hiring
SGEU says Saskatchewan
Polytechnic shouldn't hire more
managers while laying off
support staff
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Female bus driver dismissed after 'inappropriate' sexual behaviour pg. 6
see Arbitrator > pg. 7
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
