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July 29, 2019
Metro deal reached
About 4,000 workers across
27 locations in Ontario agree
to new tentative
agreement
Hamilton medical resident
reinstated after 6-year absence
AFTER a trial found him not
guilty of sexual assault, a medical
resident at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ont. was denied re-
admittance to the program.
Amitabh Chauhan worked in
the university's Plastic Surgery
Postgraduate Medical Education
Program for a few months but in
2011, he was arrested and charged
with drugging and sexually as-
saulting a woman in 2003, and an-
other woman in 2011.
Chauhan was suspended from
Memorial University cafeteria worker
grieves after job description changes
A LONG-SERVING employee at Memorial Uni-
versity in St. John's suddenly found herself out of a
job after her position was eliminated.
Shirley Ebsary had worked for a variety of food-
service employers at the university since 1982 and
had been employed by the current service provider
Aramark Canada since 2013.
After Aramark had received various com-
plaints about the food products coming out of the
on-site bakery, it decided that changes had to be
made to staffing. A new position, cook 2, was cre-
ated and it was posted on Aug. 30, 2017.
As part of the new classification, the successful
candidate had to hold a Red Seal certification.
Ebsary applied for the position but was not giv-
en the role. Instead, it went to Scott Power, a more
junior employee. The union, the Newfoundland
and Labrador Association of Public and Private
Employees (NAPE), grieved the decision on Sept.
14 and argued the employer acted in an arbitrary
TRANSPORTATION
Charron Transport
Chatham, Ont.
(34 drivers, dockmen, maintenance personnel, brokers,
mechanics) and Teamsters, Local 879
Renewal agreement: Effective
April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2023.
Signed on Aug. 14, 2018.
Shift premium: $0.10 for miles
on sixth day/shift for highway
drivers who have completed
5 work days/shifts. $0.75 per
hour for lead-hands.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Federated Co-Operatives — Alberta pg. 3 Government of
Newfoundland and Labrador — Newfoundland and Labrador pg. 4
Securitas Transport Aviation Security — Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador pg. 5 Lac Ste.
Anne County — Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see Interruption > pg. 7
see Arbitration > pg. 7
Call : 1-888-858-7838
Email: irc@queensu.ca
Website: irc.queensu.ca
Learn more:
Managing Unionized Environments: Sept. 17-19, 2019: Calgary
Labour Relations Foundations: Sept. 22-27, 2019: Kingston
Change Management: Oct. 1-3, 2019: Toronto
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