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November 26, 2018
Agrement breached after company
didn't replace retired worker: Union
AFTER THE highest-paid union-
ized employee at a Mount Pearl,
N.L., industrial gas supplier re-
tired, his position was not refilled.
Gus Hickey worked as a cus-
tomer installation technician
(CIT) at Air Liquide Canada, but
he retired on June 1, 2017. His
duties included installation of
liquid carbon dioxide, nitrogen,
oxygen and argon tanks for vari-
ous locations around Newfound-
land and Labrador.
Hickey's job entailed being on
call on a 24-hour, seven-days-
per-week basis. But when he was
Fort McMurray, Alta., truck driver fired
after being caught not wearing seatbelt
WHEN THE driver of an oilsands dump truck
was seen not wearing a seatbelt, he was promptly
terminated for violating a "cardinal" safety rule.
Randolph Healey worked as a truck driver for
North American Mining for about seven or eight
years at Suncor's oilsands mine near Fort Mc-
Murray, Alta., when on June 6, 2017, he was oper-
ating one of the company's massive Caterpillar
haul trucks, which was 19 feet, six inches high.
Foreman Doug Hodge was operating a bulldoz-
er — which measured 15 feet, five inches high —
when he passed by Healey and looked up into the
cab.
The shoulder belt was viewed from about 20
to 25 feet away, said Hodge, and it was hang-
ing loosely from its retraction area and it wasn't
wrapped around Healey, as it should have been.
And because Healey's side window was rolled
down, Hodge had no trouble seeing inside, he
testified.
PACKAGING
Cascades
Calgary
(130 production employees, electricians, mechanics,
engineers) and Unifor, Local 539
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive March 7, 2018, to March 6,
2022. Ratified on July 25, 2018.
Signed on Aug. 29, 2018.
Wage adjustments:
Effective year 1: 2% plus $300
lump-sum payment
Effective year 2: 2%
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
New contract
Four-year collective agreement
signed for 123 employees
at Radisson Hotel
Saskatoon
Corporation of the City of Vaughan — Ontario pg. 4 Dalhousie
University — Nova Scotia pg. 4 NAV CANADA — Multiprovince pg.
McKenzie Towne Retirement Residence — Alberta pg. 6 Hudbay
Minerals — Manitoba pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
REUTERS/Todd
Korol
see No layoffs > pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
