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March 20, 2017
AGRICULTURE
Burnbrae Farms
Calgary
(55 factory, maintenance workers) and United Food and
Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), Local 401
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive June 14, 2016, to June 13,
2020. Ratified on Oct. 20, 2016.
Signed on Oct. 21, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective first year: $0.30 per
hour
Effective second year: $0.30
TTC collector loses job
after apparent threats
THE DAY after a Toronto Tran-
sit Commission (TTC) worker
attended sensitivity training, he
reportedly made death threats
against three supervisors.
Mark Davis had worked for the
TTC since 1989. He was working
inside a collection booth at Mid-
land station on Aug. 6, 2014, when
Dawn Bethune, collector, relieved
him so he could take a lunch
break. Davis left the booth to have
lunch, then came back early.
He struck up a conversation
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan — Saskatchewan pg. 3 Hamilton
Specialty Bar — Ontario pg. 4 Prince George Airport Authority — British
Columbia pg. 5 The Town of Nanton — Alberta pg. 5 Logistec Stevedoring
— Nova Scotia pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Chase
Clausen
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
New OPSEU members
Waterford Retirement
Residence workers agree —
by more than 75 per
cent — to join union
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Alberta sanitation worker fired after coworker steals treats from his truck pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
British Columbia ship captain
refuses random drug testing
Tugboat operator
called screening
'medical examinations'
BY JOHN DUJAY
A SHIP'S CAPTAIN — with more than 36
years of service at Seaspan in British Colum-
bia — was slotted into inactive duty after he
refused to take a random drug test.
Mark Chambers was employed by the com-
pany as a tugboat captain when an April 21,
2015, company letter ordered him to under-
take mandatory drug and alcohol testing to
satisfy requirements of a contract to handle
cargo for Shell Trading Canada, as well as oth-
ers such as Exxon Mobil and Imperial Oil.
Chambers called the letter "insulting and
see Company > pg. 7
