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Canada Post fails to investigate
worker's safety concerns after breakup
CANADA POST must give a worker her former
job back with compensation for lost wages after
it failed to investigate her claims of workplace
threats from a former partner that pushed her to
leave for a part-time position elsewhere.
Crystal Dowhan was employed with Canada
Post as an inside postal clerk at the London, Ont.
mail processing plant. She was in a relationship
with a fellow Canada Post employee, leading to
her giving birth to the fellow employee's child.
However, the relationship deteriorated and then
ended after the child was born.
Dowhan and the other employee worked dif-
ferent shifts but there was a six-hour overlap be-
tween them and they sometimes encountered
each other. They went through an acrimonious
custody battle for the child and the other employ-
ee harassed Dowhan and physically threatened
her at work over the custody dispute.
In August 2017, Dowhan reported to
Charter challenge
10 Ontario unions launch
fight against Bill 124
Side deal for extra overtime pay
not allowed if not in agreement
AN ONTARIO union unsuccess-
fully tried to implement a side deal
on overtime pay that wasn't docu-
mented or enshrined in the exist-
ing collective agreement.
Cavendish Appetizers ran a food
products plant in Wheatley, Ont.,
and was a subsidiary of Dieppe,
N.B.-based Cavendish Farms.
One of the plant's shift rota-
tions, the continuous shift, worked
12 hours per day from Monday to
Thursday. Fridays weren't regularly
scheduled workdays. The collec-
tive agreement stated that "over-
time will only be paid for hours in
RECREATION CENTRES
Nustadia Recreation
Clairmont, Alta.
(23 custodians, attendants, operators, instructors) and the Union
Renewal agreement: Effective
Nov. 1, 2018 to Oct. 31, 2022.
Ratified on July 4, 2019. Signed
on July 25, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 10%
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 10%
Effective Jan. 1, 2021: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2022: 2%
Shift premium: $0.75 per hour
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Ocean Choice International — Multiprovince pg. 3 Lakeland
Lodge and Housing Foundation — Alberta pg. 4 Bell Aliant —
Multiprovince pg. 5 Regional Municipality of Niagara — Ontario
pg. 6 Wild Rose School Division No. 66 — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Marc
Bruxelle
(iStock)
see Verbal > pg. 8
see Harassment > pg. 8
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