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February 2, 2015
FIRE SERVICES
Winnipeg Airports Authority
Winnipeg
(24 firefighters) and the Public Service Alliance
of Canada (PSAC) Local 50600
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2015.
Signed on Sept. 9, 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective July 1, 2013: 2.5%
Effective July 1, 2014: 2.5%
Shift premium: $2.50 per hour
for shifts between 4 p.m. and
N.S. health care law stands
Arbitrator rules bargaining
units representing health
care employees can be
reduced from
50 to four
ArbitrAtioN
AwArdS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
A complicated merger pg. 8
Alberta Health Services pg. 3 ATCO Electric pg.3 Western Forest Products
pg. 4 City of Greater Sudbury pg. 4 Bombardier Transportation pg. 5
Communications Security Establishment pg. 5 University of Alberta pg. 5
Aklavik Housing Association pg. 6 JBS Food Canada pg. 6
Employee working
full-time hours not eligible
for full-time employment
ThE CAnAdiAn Union of
Public Employees (CUPE) local
79 filed a grievance after the City
of Toronto failed to convert Paula
Melville to full-time employment
status. The union argued that
Melville — a member of the recre-
ational workers part-time bargain-
ing unit — was entitled to employ-
ment under the full-time collective
ColleCtive
AgreemeNtS
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Dan
Riedlhuber
The Supreme Court in January struck down a rule that barred Canada's national police force
from unionizing, saying the current labour rubric violated their right to freedom of association.
Strategic Grievance Handling
Develop techniques and approaches to confidently analyze and manage
all steps in the grievance process.
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March 24 to 27, 2015: Toronto
see Arbitration > pg. 8
pg. 2
see New > pg. 7
Mounties win bargaining rights at top court
Supreme Court strikes down rule banning RCMP from forming union
By SaBrina nanji
ThE CoUnTRy'S Top police have up
until now been the only force without the
right to collectively bargain — that is, until
a decision at the Supreme Court turned that
rule on its head.
In mid-January, the RCMP and its em-
ployer, the federal Treasury Board and
public safety ministry, listened to the final
decision in a case for the right to collec-
tively bargain, which the Mounties initially
brought to an Ontario courtroom in 2006.
In its 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court
determined the denial of the right to form a
union and collectively bargain an employ-
ment agreement violated the RCMP's right
to freedom of association, which is guaran-
teed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The victory was a long time coming,
according to Rob Creasser, a spokesper-
son for the Mounted Police Professional
