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see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Employer in hot water over posting for cook position pg. 8
Lafarge North America — Ontario pg. 3 Callisto Contruction — Alberta
pg. 3 Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo — Alberta pg.
4 FNX Mining — Ontario pg. 4 Amherst Quarries — Ontario pg. 5
Capital Paving — Ontario pg. 5 City of Lloydminster — Alberta pg. 6
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pg. 2
Ontario teachers walk off the job
First round of talks under new bargaining rubric break down
By SaBrina nanji
A strike lOOms large in Ontario as
teachers prepare for job action this month.
Since negotiations began in earnest with
the provincial government and school
board associations last September, teach-
ers have been battling it out at the bargain-
ing table, with little headway made on a new
collective agreement.
This week, the Elementary Teachers' Fed-
eration of Ontario (ETFO) plans to join the
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Fed-
eration (OSSTF) in rotating strikes, which
are already in full swing in Peel and Durham
regions. Combined, the two represent more
than 130,000 public school teachers, occa-
sional teachers and educational assistants.
"The government and the Ontario Public
School Boards' Association (OPSBA) want
to layer on more bureaucracy into the educa-
tion system, and compromise the ability of
retrofit building, not job
duties, arbitrator says
A pOlicy grievAnce was
upheld at a southwestern Ontario
county where a new municipal
building was erected that had the
effect of changing the nature of
the job for the workers who were
tasked with maintenance.
In 2012, the County of Lamb-
ton revamped its municipal art
gallery, and introduced a new
cleaner position — previously
there had only been one.
Unifor filed a policy griev-
ance on behalf of county workers,
CONSTRUCTION
nuna contracting
territorywide, nunavut
(45 operating engineers) and the Construction Workers Union Local 63,
affiliated with the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC)
renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2017.
Signed on Feb. 20, 2015.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 1.8%
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 1.8%
shift premium: 50¢ for stew-
ards, $1 for lead hands.
Ontario school board associations have won a seat at the bargaining table alongside the
government and unions — but talks have stalled, inciting job action at elementary and high
schools across the province.
teachers' association
opposes bill 100
N.S. bill would affect univer-
sity staff's
right to strike
see Arbitration > pg. 8
see New > pg. 7
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