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August 5, 2019
Strike averted
About 230 regional workers in
Port Alberni, B.C. agree to deal
after 10 months of talks
Winnipeg transit workers grieve
after family leave denied
AFTER seven workers at Win-
nipeg Transit were denied paid
family responsibility leave, the
union filed a policy grievance al-
leging the employer treated them
unfairly.
During various negotiations for
collective agreements, the City of
Winnipeg and the Amalgamated
Transit Union (ATU), Local 1505,
agreed to language that would sat-
isfy new rules of the Employment
Standards Code.
The agreement, which ran
from Jan. 18, 2015 to Jan. 12, 2019,
called for employees to receive
Vancouver school support worker
grieves board's return-to-work plans
AFTER a serious auto crash left her off work for
more than a year, an education assistant (EA) with
the West Vancouver school board grieved the
choices of jobs offered to her.
Clare Broomfield had worked full-time for the
employer since 2009 but in January 2014, her ve-
hicle was rear-ended by a truck, which resulted in
her being off the job for one-and-a-half years.
When she did return, Broomfield was not able
to engage in "impact activities such as running
and jumping, [or] overly stressful or threatening
situations," and she was restricted to "light duties
and to performing any medium duties on a rare
basis."
As well, no heavy duties were permitted, and
this meant Broomfield couldn't do student trans-
fers without assistance, for example.
Broomfield contacted administrator David
Platt to arrange a return-to-work plan and he ad-
vised her that the board could not create a new,
METAL FABRICATION
Purity Zinc Metals
Stoney Creek, Ont.
(19 operators, lead-hands, maintenance staff, mechanics,
janitors, floaters) and Teamsters, Local 879
Renewal agreement: Effective
Sept. 21, 2018 to Sept. 20, 2022.
Signed on April 11, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
During term of agreement, $0.03
will be generated for every full-
point increase in CPI above Au-
gust setting of 397.8 (maximum
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Valleyview (Agecare Investments) — Alberta pg. 3 Hodder Tugboat
— British Columbia pg. 4 Arnold Bros. Transport — Manitoba pg. 5
Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4. —
Alberta pg. 6 Columbia Forest Products — Ontario pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Questionnaire > pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg. 8
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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