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January 14, 2019
Windsor, Ont., welfare worker grieves
denial of 3.5 hours of acting pay
A CASEWORKER for the City
of Windsor, Ont., welfare depart-
ment asked for acting pay for
completing an investigation into
a potential fraud case.
Alison Boyer had worked for
the social-services department
since 1980 and was working as a
caseworker – float, which meant
dealing with various clients in
the Ontario Works program, the
province-wide social assistance
arm.
On Jan. 12, 2016, Boyer heard
from a client that her benefits
had been subjected to a hold and
Manitoba municipal workers protest
employer claw-back of holiday benefits
WHEN A NEW town in Manitoba was created,
two separate collective agreements had to be
merged into one.
On Jan. 1, 2015, the communities of Strath-
clair and Shoal Lake were amalgamated to cre-
ate the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead. The
municipal employees of both former commun-
ities were unionized workers, represented by
the International Union of Operating Engineers
(IUOE), Local 987.
A new collective agreement was signed on Sept.
20, 2017, but it went into effect as of Jan. 1, 2016.
Because the former contracts differed in terms of
various sick leave and vacation benefits, a letter
of agreement (LOA) was attached that was titled:
"Regarding retro pay."
It included a phrase that established which
employees would receive the retroactive bene-
fits from the old collective agreements: "To qual-
ify for retroactive monetary benefits of any sort
SHIPPING
NACC Shipping Canada
Multiprovince
(4 watchkeepers, cooks) and the Seafarers'
International Union of Canada (SIU)
Renewal agreement: Effective
May 1, 2017, to April 30, 2022.
Signed on May 2, 2017.
Paid holidays: 9 days.
Vacations with pay: 6% on
each paycheque.
Overtime: Time and one-half
for all hours worked in excess of
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
IGA workers sign
After three rounds of mediation,
60 employees at Port McNeill,
B.C., grocer sign new
collective agreement
Clearview Public Schools — Alberta pg. 3 Saint John Construction
Association — New Brunswick pg. 4 Town of Pincher Creek — Alberta
pg. 4 McMaster University — Ontario pg. 5 Russel Metals — Alberta
pg. 6 Halifax Regional Municipality — Nova Scotia pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see Caseworker > pg. 8
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Managing Unionized Environments: February 12-14, 2019: Ottawa
Workplace Restoration: February
26-28 2019: Toronto
Call : 1-888-858-7838
Email: irc@queensu.ca
Website: irc.queensu.ca
Learn more:
see Arbitration > pg 8
