Canadian Labour Reporter

June-22-2015

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PM #40065782 Labour Reporter Canadian www.labour-reporter.com June 22, 2015 ArbitrAtion AwArds see Collective agreements > pg. 3 Transit driver dismissed after rowdy ride pg. 8 Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety pg. 3 Unicoop, Coopérative Agricole pg. 3 Les Entreprises Real Caron pg. 4 SMIT Harbour Towage pg. 4 Sarens Canada pg. 5 Circon Construction pg. 5 Government of Alberta pg. 6 Clipper Navigation pg. 6 ColleCtive Agreements ColleCtive Agreements Photo: Benoit Tessier (Reuters) Labour Relations Foundations, S eptember 20-25, 2015: Kingston i r c . q u e e n s u . c a Laying the Groundwork for Excellence in Union-Management Relations Change Management, S eptember 29 - Oc tober 1, 2015: O ttawa Driving & Building Support for Successful Change Projects Using a Time-Tested Framework pg. 2 Gawker votes 'yes' on union Organized labour at digital media company could be start of trend By SaBrina nanji Gawker Media has gone union. About 120 workers at the digital media outlet, head- quartered in New York City, voted 75 per cent in favour of joining the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) union on June 3 — making it the first major online-only organi- zation with a union shop. In a post published on Gawker's website under the banner "Why we've decided to or- ganize," senior writer Hamilton Nolan wrote "Every workplace could use a union." It's a sentiment mirrored across many of Gawker's editorial staff, he said. "We have a lot of lefties working here and a lot of people were probably positively disposed to labour organizing from the start," Nolan said in an interview, adding the campaign was rela- tively well-received by management. What the writers sought was the establish- ment of a wage scale, a severance-pay system employer's new policies cause problems Two new policies intro- duced by Veyance Technologies Canada were met with resistance by the United Steelworkers Local 7175 recently. The manufacturer employs about 146 USW mem- bers at its Coburg, Ont., facility. The first grievance relates to the employer's smoking policy. First announced in 2014, the policy was implemented in two phases. In 2014, employees were al- lowed to smoke in a designated EDUCATION dalhousie University halifax (900 professors) and the Dalhousie Faculty Association renewal agreement: Effective July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2017. Signed on Jan. 1, 2015. wage adjustments: Effective July 1, 2014: 2% Effective July 1, 2014: $2,541 career development increment Effective July 1, 2015: 1.75% Effective July 1, 2015: $2,558 career development increment Unifor lauds auto strategy Former Toyota chairman Ray Tanguay to advise government, business on auto sector see Arbitration > pg. 8 see Wake-up > pg. 7 ArbitrAtion AwArds The Writers Guild of America union scored a big win following a successful certification drive at Gawker Media, which is now the first wholly digital media outlet with a union shop.

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