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October 27, 2014
CONSTRUCTION
Rockwell Site Works
Richmond Hill, Ont.
(5 employees) and the Christian Labour
Association of Canada (CLAC) Local 52
Renewal agreement: Effective
Oct. 1, 2013, to Sept. 30, 2016.
Signed on Oct. 14, 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Oct. 1, 2014: 3%
Effective Oct. 1, 2015: 4.6%
Calculated by CLR
Shift premium: $1 per hour for
lead hand.
You've got mail
The Canadian Union of Postal
Workers is launching a legal
challenge against efforts to
eliminate home mail
delivery.
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
see Collective agreemnents > pg. 3
Union calls foul over commission pg. 6
Sodexo Canada — Ontario pg. 3 Guelph Police Services Board —
Ontario pg. 3 Bank of Canada — Ontario pg. 4 Halifax Regional
Municipality — Nova Scotia pg. 5 Royal Ready Mix — Ontario pg. 5
Health care workers win
more stand-by pay
EmERgEncy HEaltH care
workers in Saskatchewan won
their case after raising concerns
over assignments which kept
them on stand-by far from their
home base.
The Health Sciences Asso-
ciation of Saskatchewan filed a
grievance on behalf of employees
at Sunrise Health Region, chal-
lenging the employer's practice of
assigning stand-by shifts at loca-
tions other than that of the em-
ployee's designated base.
Sunrise Health (which provides
ColleCtive
Agreements
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Mark
Blinch
(Reuters)
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 2
see We > pg. 7
nDP
divorce
Unifor
over voting
strategy
Partisan politics seeps
into labour relations
By SaBrina nanji
tHE DivORcE between federal
NDP staffers and their union was an
amicable one — but the split shines a
light on the partisanship of the labour
movement.
More than 600 employees for the
federal NDP left Unifor in mid-October after
the union failed to give its unequivocal sup-
port to the party in Ontario's provincial elec-
tion in June. During the campaign period,
Unifor urged its members to vote strategi-
cally, thereby endorsing the non-Progressive
Contenders in Ontario's June election (above) duke it out. Unifor endorsed anyone but the
Progressive Conservatives, a move which alienated the members of its NDP bargaining unit.
