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October 14, 2014
ENTERTAINMENT
Edmonton Opera
Association
Edmonton
(353 employees) and the International Alliance of
eatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 210
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2017.
Signed on Sept. 11, 2014.
Newfoundland and Labrador
municipal workers locked out
Garbage and recycling collection
was disrupted when the city of
Mount Pearl, N.L.,
locked out employees.
ArbitrAtioN
AwArds
see Collective agreemnents > pg. 3
Poor attendance leads to loss of position pg. 6
Nova Scotia Construction Labour Relations Association — Nova Scotia
pg. 3 City of Red Deer — Alberta pg. 3 City of Fort Saskatchewan —
Alberta pg. 4 National Research Council of Canada — Ontario pg. 5
Instructors denied compensation
for going beyond normal job duties
It's All pARt of the job, a
group of teachers at a northern
Ontario college were told by an
arbitrator.
At Sault College, based in Sault
Ste. Marie, Ont., three teachers
requested (and were subsequently
denied) additional compensa-
tion for the extra time they spent
learning a college-wide learning
module. The learning manage-
ment software enabled teachers
to post information such as notes,
videos, grades and included email
capability so students could com-
municate with their instructors.
CoLLeCtive
AgreemeNts
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Trevor
Beckerson/Unifor
Nova Scotia has opted for centralized bargaining in its health sector, which it says will elimi-
nate redundancies. However, unions are calling the move a violation of basic rights.
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 2
see Centralizing> pg. 7
N.s. moves to centralized health care
Bill 1 restructures
bargaining units
from 50 units to 4
By SaBrina nanji
As pROtEstERs ANd police butted
heads outside Nova Scotia's legislature, in-
side, the hotly-contested Bill 1 was passed,
signalling a monumental shift for health
care labour relations — and the possibility
that other provinces will follow suit.
Bill 1, otherwise known as the Health
Authorities Act, passed on Oct. 3, much
to the chagrin of unions. Under the new
legislation, the province's nine district
health authorities will be merged into one
province-wide employer (the women and
children-focused IWK Health Centre is to
remain a standalone entity), and the 50 bar-
gaining units will be reduced to four. Essen-
