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October 10, 2016
Ontario employee courts disaster
with ongoing dishonest conduct
Long-time employee denied
taking money from safe
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ARBITRATOR has upheld the dismissal of an
Ontario court worker who was caught on video taking
money from a safe and later returning it.
Maria Rossi, 63, was a support assistant in court
services at the Toronto West Court. Rossi worked for
the City of Toronto in its court services for 10 years
since it had been transferred from the province. Prior
to the transfer, she had been a provincial court servic-
es employee for another six years.
Rossi's job involved being a lead in the enforcement
and intake unit at the court, where she worked on ad-
ministrative functions and handling default fines.
She was also a back-up for the unit's counter services,
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
'Labour relations gone amok' in Calgary grievance pg. 8
Aecon Western Industrial — Alberta pg. 3 Clean Harbors Canada — Ontario
pg. 4 Aeroplan — Multiprovince pg. 4 Thompson Rivers University — B.C.
pg. 5 Sobeys West — Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Telus, union agree
10,800 workers still have to
ratify new five-year tentative
agreement
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Denials > pg. 7
Union shop steward's
combativeness gets him fired
ACTING AS a union representa-
tive can mean a worker finds him-
self butting heads with his own
employer.
Jason Budarick worked as a
haul truck driver at Teck Highland
Valley Copper (HVC) in Logan
Lake, B.C., before his Jan. 19, 2016,
termination.
"You willfully failed to follow
the direction of supervision on
multiple occasions. In addition,
you have directed the workforce
without the authority to do so and
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Hamlet of Rankin Inlet
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
(25 workers, administrative services employees) and
the Public Service Alliance of Canada (CLC)
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2015, to March 31,
2020. Signed on Jan. 28, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2016: 3%
Effective April 1, 2017: 2%
Effective April 1, 2018: 1%
Effective April 1, 2019: 1%
Managing Unionized Environments, Nov. 1-3, 2016: Vic toria
Living the Collective Agreement
Mastering Fac t-Finding & Investigation, Nov. 15-18, 2016: Halifax
Building Internal Capacity to Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints
irc.queensu.ca
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
