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CHICKEN PROCESSING
Cargill Meats London
London, Ont.
(740 production workers, engineers, operators, maintenance staff ) and
the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), Local 175
Renewal agreement: Effective
June 4, 2017, to June 3, 2021.
Signed on Jan. 31, 2018.
Wage adjustments:
For groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Effective June 4, 2017: $0.30 per
hour
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $0.50 per
Overtime denial not enough to
breach agreement: Arbitrator
WHEN a last-minute poultry run
was offered to truck drivers at a
Saskatchewan chicken processor,
a senior employee wasn't assigned
the hours by the employer.
Clint Young agreed to accept
the run, but he was denied the
work after the employer gave it to
another worker to top up his two-
week hourly level, which guaran-
teed all workers received at least
80 hours of work per pay period.
On Sept. 21, 2016, Gaetan Du-
ret, plant manager, received a call
B.C. apprentice grieves treatment
after not being paid as millwright
Worker succeeded trainer
who left company in 2013
WHEN he replaced a millwright during an ap-
prenticeship at a British Columbia mill, the em-
ployer should have paid him at the non-certified
rate and not the apprentice rate, argued the em-
ployee.
Dan Sherwood worked for Weyerhaeuser since
1996, and began an apprenticeship to become a
millwright at the company's Princeton, B.C., plant
in October 2012.
Sherwood was assigned to apprentice under
Jack Kachenko, millwright, but Kachenko left the
company in June 2013.
No permanent replacement was ever hired for
Kachenko and Sherwood effectively took over the
job as millwright, argued the union, the United
July 16, 2018
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg 8
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Strike vote held
About 225 Casino Ajax employees
in Ontario vote to walk off jobs if
bargaining talks fail to
reach new agreement
District of Kitimat — British Columbia pg. 3 Fleischmann's Yeast
Calgary — Alberta pg. 5 Lakehead Terminal Elevators Association
(Richardson International/Superior Elevator ULC/Viterra) — Ontario
pg. 5 Goldcorp Canada (Porcupine Gold Mines) — Ontario pg. 6 Kal
Tire — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Employer's > pg. 8
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Managing Unionized Environments, Oc t. 2-4, 2018: S ask atoon
Living the Collective Agreement
Labour Relations Foundations, S ep. 23-28, 2018: Kingston
Laying the Groundwork for Excellence in Union-Management Relations
