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October 20, 2014
TRANSPORTATION
BC Rail
Province-wide, British Columbia
(150 service employees) and the Teamsters union
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 23, 2013, to July 22, 2016.
Signed in June 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective July 23, 2013: 3%
Effective July 23, 2014: 3%
Effective July 23, 2015: 3%
Paid holidays: 11 days.
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks
after 1 year, 3 weeks after 4 years,
4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks
Media merger
Unions representing media staffers
at both Postmedia and Sun Media
will be keeping a close eye on the
deal as details of the
purchase unfold.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
see Collective agreemnents > pg. 3
Contract restricts job duties on production site pg. 6
ABF Freight Systems pg. 3 Jack Cooper Canada pg. 3 British
Columbia Rapid Transit Company pg. 3 Ledcor Pipeline pg. 4
Canadian Security Intelligence Service pg. 4 L-3 Communication
MAS Canada pg. 5 Sydney Airport Authority pg. 5
Employee in over his
head on overtime shift
ThE VICTORIA DAy weekend
proved to be no holiday for Joshi Ti-
rath, an employee on ABC INOAC
Exterior's paint line.
Tirath, who had worked for the
Ontario-based employer for about
five years, denied he failed to report
to work on the Victoria Day holiday.
He argued he was never asked to
work an overtime assignment and
as proof he pointed to the fact that
he hadn't signed or initialed any-
thing in confirmation of his accep-
tance of the overtime.
Tirath worked his regularly
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Paul
Darrow
(Reuters)
Critics of the shift to a shared-risk pension plan in New Brunswick say the outgoing govern-
ment, headed by David Alward, is attempting to "eliminate the case entirely or drag it out even
longer" by fi ghting retirees' application in court.
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 8
see Cost > pg. 7
N.B. pensioners take province to court
Public service retirees fight
for cost of living benefits
BY LIZ FOSTER
MANy CANADIANS imagine their retire-
ment to be a time for relaxation. The Pension
Coalition NB, however, is heading into the
courtroom to fight for the golden years.
The grassroots group — representing
13,000 public service retirees in New Bruns-
wick — is taking the province to court in a
fight for their cost of living benefits.
In December 2013, the government voted
to pass pension reforms in an effort to ad-
dress a $1-billion deficit. The legislation
— tabled by finance minister Blaine Higgs
— brings about 30,000 current and for-
mer public service employees under a new
shared-risk model.
Previously, cost of living increases were
automatic after retirement. But under the
new model, they are conditional on plan
performance. Moving forward, if the fund-
ing level of the shared-risk pension plan
does not allow for full or partial cost of living
