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October 14, 2019
Dearborn Ford contract
Despite bad-faith bargaining
complaint, 43 workers agree to
new contract at Kamloops,
B.C. dealership
'Extraordinary circumstances'
not normal work: arbitrator
A BRITISH Columbia employer
is free to contract out welding
work that isn't part of regular
repairs of its equipment after a
union grievance was dismissed.
BCMEA Global Container Ter-
minals (GCT) runs operates ship-
ping container terminals and is
based in Vancouver. At the termi-
nals, GCT has mobile equipment
called spreaders that are large de-
vices used to lift shipping contain-
ers and other types of cargo.
Often, when structural cracks
— cracks in equipment that
is stressed or loadbearing —
Ontario worker misleads employer
on unpaid leave request for ill mother
AN ONTARIO hospital worker had her vacation
request denied while on medical leave, and then
applied for unpaid leave under false pretenses.
The worker was a cleaner at St. Joseph's Hospi-
tal in Toronto for many years. Starting in 2002, the
hospital began accommodating her due to physi-
cal limitations, eventually placing her in a clean-
ing position with the lightest duties.
However, in 2013, the worker arranged to be
transferred to a cleaning position in a patient unit,
without notifying HR or the occupational health
departments. The hospital then invited the work-
er to return to the accommodated position but the
worker declined, saying she believed she could
perform the regular duties of her new job.
It soon became evident that the worker's limi-
tations were impacting her ability to work in the
new position, so the hospital moved her to a less
difficult unit with some modifications to her job
duties.
EDUCATION
University of Calgary
Calgary
(4,800 office-support workers) and the Alberta Union
of Provincial Employees (AUPE), Local 52
Renewal agreement: Effective
April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2020.
Signed on June 12, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2018: 0%
Effective April 1, 2019: 0%
Shift premium: $2.50 per hour
(previously $2 per hour) for
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Cascade Aerospace — British Columbia pg. 4 ATB Financial —
Alberta pg. 5 Prince Edward Island Department of Health —
Prince Edward Island pg. 6 Aquatera Utilities — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see Arbitration > pg. 8
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