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October 26, 2015
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Employee terminated after aggravating workplace injury pg. 8
Government of New Brunswick pg. 3 National Grocers pg. 4
City of Lloydminster pg. 4 Government of New Brunscwick pg. 5
The Town of Creston pg. 5 City of Calgary pg. 6 JBS Food pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Chris
Wattie
(Reuters)
Labour Relations Foundations, November 23-27, 2015: Vic toria
Laying the Groundwork for Excellence in Union-Management Relations
Mastering Fac t-Finding and Investigation, December 1-4, 2015: Vic toria
Building Internal Capacity to Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints
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pg. 2
U.S. Steel Canada to be severed from parent company
Steelmaker to cease pension, benefit payments as part of transition
BY LIZ FOSTER
THE ONTARIO SUPERIOR Court re-
cently approved a plan for U.S. Steel Canada
(USSC) to be severed from its parent compa-
ny U.S. Steel.
The Oct. 9 ruling in USSC's bankruptcy
protection proceedings allows the company
to stop contributing to pension payments,
health benefits and prescription drug cover-
age for pensioners. More than 20,000 former
USSC employees will be affected.
The company, currently restructuring un-
der the Companies' Creditors Arrangement
Act, argued that avoiding those payments is
necessary to allow it to succeed as it emerges
as an independent entity.
Additionally, the court-sanctioned plan al-
lows USSC to stop paying municipal taxes to
the City of Hamilton and Haldimand County.
The decision from Superior Court Justice
Herman Wilton-Siegel is less a ruling against
retirees and more a ruling for the industry as
No relief employees
allowed on night shift
HIRING PRIVATE security
workers to provide relief on night
shifts went against the collective
agreement between employees
at the North Bay Regional Health
Centre in Ontario, an arbitrator
has decided.
The Canadian Union of Public
Employees union filed a policy
grievance against the hospital af-
ter it decided to use security op-
erators — employees of Russell
Security Services — to provide re-
lief coverage for workers operat-
HEALTH CARE
Hôpital Montfort
Ottawa
(120 offi ce employees) and the Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4721
Renewal agreement: Effective
Sept. 30, 2013, to Sept. 29, 2017.
Signed on Jan. 9, 2015.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Sept. 30, 2013: 0.7%
Effective Sept. 30, 2014: 0.7%
Effective Sept. 30, 2015: 0.7%
Effective Sept. 30, 2016: 0.7%
USSC will be severed from parent company U.S. Steel after an Ontario Superior Court ruling.
Safety threat
Conditions at Toronto South
Detention and Waypoint
Centres deteriorat-
ing, OPSEU says
see Arbitration > pg. 8
see Industry > pg. 7
ARBITRATION
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