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August 5, 2014
HOUSING
Capital Region Housing
Edmonton
(57 employees) and the Alberta Union of Provincial
Employees (AUPE) Local 118/011
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 31, 2015.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2015: 2.5%
Shift premium: 65¢ per hour
for employees required to use
paint-spraying machines, or to
mix or spray pesticides.
Alberta pension changes slated for
Sept. 1
Changes to Alberta's pension
legislation will come into effect this
fall, finance minister Doug
Horner announced.
ArbitrAtion
AwArdS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
College employee claims discrimination based on creed pg. 06
Cooney Bulk Sales - Brantford, Ont. pg. 3 St. Boniface Hospital -
Winnipeg pg. 4 Indu-Com Coatings - Aurora, Ont. pg. 4 Circon
Construction - Mississauga, Ont. pg. 4 City of Greater Sudbury
- Sudbury, Ont. pg. 5 City Hotels NB - Edmunston, N.B. pg. 5
Canada Post staffer awarded
after heated confrontation
A PoStiE bASEd in Edmon-
ton received compensation after
an arbitrator found Canada Post
violated the collective agreement
when dealing with one of her
complaints.
Yvette Brusseau, a union stew-
ard who worked the midnight
shift at the Edmonton Mail Pro-
cessing Plant for two years, at-
tempted to schedule a meeting
with her superiors in 2009 con-
cerning the accommodation she
was receiving regarding a work-
ColleCtive
AgreementS
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Mark
Blinch
(Reuters)
After failing to unionize Toyota workers in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ont., Unifor is
renewing its organizing efforts. The union plans to open a non-bargaining local in
the area in an attempt to engage Toyota employees.
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 2
see UAW > pg. 7
Unifor puts
toyota workers
in driver's
seat
Union opens non-bargaining
local in certification drive
By Liz Foster
UnifoR iS CHAnging lanes after a long and bumpy
ride in its efforts to organize Toyota workers in Ontario.
A non-bargaining local will be set up for workers at
Toyota's Cambridge and Woodstock plants. The move —
according to Unifor's national president Jerry Dias — will
show workers Unifor is about more than just bargaining.
"Our union is much more than just collective bargain-
ing and I think that's the key here," Dias said. "Collective
bargaining is obviously so important to our union, but we
