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AN ARBITRATOR has denied
reinstatement to a Canadian Pa-
cific Railway (CPR) employee in
British Columbia who was fired
after falsifying inspection re-
cords and misreporting his time
worked.
Darren Miller was a signal and
communications maintainer
for CPR. On March 3, 2020, the
assistant director of signal and
communications operations was
conducting a safety walkabout
in the area around Salmon Arm,
B.C. He searched the GPS track-
er for employee vehicles and saw
that Miller's truck was in the
Clerical workers join CUPE
After 3-month delay, 357 Mount
Sinai employees get nod from
OLRB to join union
STEEL PRODUCTION
Oerlikon Metco (Canada)
Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.
(27 production employees) and Unifor, Local 530-A
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2020 to March
31, 2023. Ratified on March
20, 2020. Signed on March 10,
2020.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2020: 1.5%
Effective April 1, 2021: 2%
Effective April 1, 2022: 2.75%
Shift premium: 1 overtime
shift of pay when employee's
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Photo:
shaunl
(iStock)
see Position > pg.7
Sunwing Airlines pilot grounded after
off-duty domestic assault of coworker
A CANADIAN airline had just cause to fire a pilot
who was charged with assaulting a coworker while
off-duty and failed to advise his employer of the
charges.
The 40-year-old worker was a captain with Sun-
wing Airlines. He first joined Sunwing in 2007 as a
first officer.
In the fall of 2019, the worker began a romantic
relationship with a first officer who was also with
Sunwing. They both became based in Calgary in
November 2019 and bid for a December schedule
that would allow them to work together during the
peak December holidays and have the same time
off. They were scheduled to work together from
Dec. 21 through Dec. 25 with matching days off
from Dec. 18 to 20.
However, on Dec. 9, the worker and the first of-
ficer had a serious argument. Things escalated and
the flight officer called the police, who arrested the
worker and charged him with assault. The worker
March 29, 2021
see Captain> pg.7
ZF Canada — Ontario pg. 3 Skookum Jim Friendship
Centre — Yukon pg. 4 Canadian Corps of
Commissionaires, Southern Alberta — Alberta pg.5
1107989 Ontario o/a NUTRA 2000 — Ontario pg.6
Photo:
JHVEPhoto
(iStock)
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
pg. 2
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Railway worker dismissed for
wasting time, falsifying records
