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September 28, 2015
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Grievance addressed after more than a decade pg. 6
ICS Courier pg. 3 XTL Transport pg. 3 Accesibilite Media pg. 4
City of Calgary pg. 4 Board of Education of School District 58 pg. 5
Flint Oilsands Construction pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Aaron
Harris
(Reuters)
Negotiation Skills, Oc tober 18-23, 2015: Kingston
Developing Negotiating Styles and Tactics to Master the Dynamics of Collective Bargaining
Building Trust in the Workplace, Oc tober 19, 2015: Calgar y
Getting at the Root of Low Trust Levels and it's Impact on Organizational Success
i r c . q u e e n s u . c a
pg. 2
Unions linked to injury claims: Study
Finds unionized workplaces have 14 per cent lower rates of lost-time claims
BY LIZ FOSTER
HARD HAT, safety harness and… a union?
Employers in the construction industry
might consider adding unionization to their
list of health and safety requirements follow-
ing a recent study from the Institute for Work
& Health (IWH).
The Toronto-based, independent, not-for-
profit research organization's study of union-
ized construction workplaces in Ontario
found a correlation between unionization
and job-related injury claims.
The findings showed unionized construc-
tion workplaces are more likely than non-
unionized ones to file job-related injury
claims, but less likely to file injury claims that
result in time off work.
Compared to non-unionized employers,
unionized construction companies in On-
tario's industrial, commercial and institu-
tional sector have 13 per cent higher rates of
Repeat offender
fired from chicken plant
AFTER BEING accused of using
offensive language with a super-
visor, and violating a last-chance
agreement, an employee at a Lily-
dale facility in Saskatchewan was
fired.
Jason Yaremko, a 41-year-old
employee since 1997, worked in
the live-hanging chicken position
until he was fired in November of
2014.
Before the incident that led to
his termination, Yaremko had a
long history of discipline at the
CONSTRUCTION
Nova Scotia Construction
Labour Relations Association
Mainland, Nova Scotia
(1,400 plumbers and pipefitters) and the United Association
of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing,
Steamfitting and Pipefitting Industry (UA) Local 56
Renewal agreement: Effective
June 1, 2015, to April 30, 2018.
Study links unionized workforces and job-related injury claims in construction sector.
FCA, UAW sign deal
A new agreement between
Fiat Chrysler and the UAW
narrows two-tiered
wage gap
see Arbitration > pg. 6
see Further > pg. 7
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS