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November 12, 2018
B.C. log sorter operator grieves
sudden, multiple suspensions
A LOG-SORTER machine op-
erator — with 35 years of experi-
ence at the same location — was
suspended three times in 14
months, despite having no previ-
ous discipline on his record.
Roy Sandholm worked as a
charge-hand at the Campbell
River, B.C., location for CIPA
Lumber for all but one-and-a-
half years during his career with
the employer.
But about four or five months
after Sandholm was first su-
pervised by a new manager,
Darryl Arsenault, he said their
Meaford, Ont., social-agency worker
grieves after vacation time disappears
AFTER SHE failed to book time off before it ex-
pired, an employee with Community Living Mea-
ford in Meaford, Ont., grieved to get back the time
off or pay in lieu of.
Ashleigh Currie was entitled to four weeks of
vacation for the April 1, 2016, to March 31, 2017,
vacation year. But shortly before she was sched-
uled to take time off in the summer of 2016, Currie
broke her wrist.
She took sick leave from June 27 to Aug. 19, and
eventually returned to work full-time on Sept. 20.
When she checked into her vacation balance,
Currie found she was owed 116 hours, but it had
to be taken before April 1, 2017, or the employer
would not normally allow her (or other employ-
ees) to carry time off forward.
Currie took some time off, but by the end of
November, she had 99 hours remaining. She
emailed Lee-Anne Reuber, supervisor, for guid-
ance: "I have two weeks of holidays that I need to
BEEF PROCESSING
Cargill
High River, Alta.
(1,938 production, maintenance employees) and the United Food
and Commercial Workers Canada Union (UFCW), Local 401
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive Jan. 1, 2017, to Dec. 31,
2020. Ratified on Oct. 27, 2017.
Signed on Oct. 27, 2017.
Wage adjustments:
Production, maintenance
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $0.40 per
hour
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Strike vote
About 240 workers at Victoria
Library say yes to strike action
over employer's
concessions demands
University of Toronto — Ontario pg. 3 ARINC International of Canada
— British Columbia pg. 4 Corporation of the County of Middlesex
(Strathmere Lodge) — Ontario pg. 5 Associated Ambulance and
Services (Whitecourt) — Alberta pg. 6 Coca-Cola — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see Check > pg. 8
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READERS'
LABOUR RELATIONS
TRAINING
CHOICE
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Negotiation Skills, Dec. 3-7, 2018: Vic toria
Developing Negotiating Styles & Tactics to Master the Dynamics of Collective Bargaining
Managing Unionized Environments, Nov. 27-29, 2018: Toronto
Living the Collective Agreement
see Arbitrations > pg 8
