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September 2, 2019
Hotel workers join UFCW
Wage hikes wanted for about
30 employees at Le Germain
Hotel in Toronto
Chicken processing plant employees
sent home after work contracted out
ON MULTIPLE occasions,
workers at a poultry plant were
told to leave work while outside
contractors were brought in, lead-
ing to a grievance.
Employees of Rossdown Natu-
ral Foods in Abbotsford, B.C.
worked in various departments
(live end, evisceration, cut and
pack and shipping) while chickens
were processed.
Certain departments were
sometimes temporarily laid off
depending on the workflow com-
ing through other departments.
To help better manage the
Queen's University professor grieves
after office relocated to another building
AFTER a personnel dispute surfaced among
members of the office staff at Queen's Univer-
sity in Kingston, Ont., one of the professors was
moved out of her current office into a new one in a
different building.
Adele Mercier worked as a philosophy depart-
ment professor since 1992. Her former office was
located on the third floor of Watson Hall, which
was where all other department professors were
housed.
But on Oct. 29, 2013, Mercier was advised via
letter from Susan Mumm, dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Science, that "both office staff members
in the department have indicated that they feel
unsafe in your presence and do not wish to have
direct communications with you."
The workers didn't fear a physical threat but
instead they reported feeling "psychologically
unsafe," according to a report by Heather Shields,
non-faculty labour relations.
GOVERNMENT
e City of Calgary
Calgary
(460 municipal foremen, supervisors) and the Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE), Local 709, Civic Foremen's Union
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 6, 2018 to Jan. 3, 2021. Rati-
fied on April 23, 2019. Signed
on June 27, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Dec. 23, 2019: 1.5%
Shift premium: $1 per hour
shift to employees for any hours
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Atlantic Pilotage Authority — Ontario pg. 3 Diversified
Transportation — Alberta pg. 4 Yukon Arts Centre — Yukon pg. 5
John Grant Haulage — Ontario pg. 6 Edmonton Exchanger —
Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see LOU > pg. 7
see Arbitration > pg. 7
Call : 1-888-858-7838
Email: irc@queensu.ca
Website: irc.queensu.ca
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