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April 10, 2017
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
City of Burnaby
Burnaby, B.C.
(1,130 management occupations) and Canadian
Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 23
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2019.
Signed on Aug. 4, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 2%
Halifax transit driver's
Facebook post equals firing
A PART-TIME bus driver in
Halifax wrote disparaging online
comments about a community,
causing management to fire her.
Gail McQuarrie's comments on
Facebook about North Preston —
a largely African-Canadian com-
munity with a history of racism —
were the subject of an anonymous
complaint received by Eddie Ro-
bar, director of Halifax Transit, on
May 3, 2015.
The posting was in response to
a comment from another driver,
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
University of Manitoba — Manitoba pg. 3 Univar Canada — Alberta pg. 3
District of Squamish — British Columbia pg. 4 Greater Moncton
International Airport Authority — New Brunswick pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Google
Street
View
pg. 2
Canada Bread lockout
About 160 workers at
Langley, B.C., bakery barred
from working after
negotiations fail
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Ontario forestry worker denied leave after spouse's grandfather dies pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
Ontario teacher dismissed after
buying stolen goods from student
Act breached duties;
broke trust with
school board, students
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO teacher's purchase of stolen
goods from a student at his school was just
cause for dismissal, an arbitrator has ruled.
Farhez Lakhani was a high school teacher
for the York Region District School Board,
where he was the head of the science depart-
ment in Markham, Ont. He started teaching
for the school board in 1995 and came to the
Markham school in 2002.
A student at the school — whom Lakhani
had taught as a Grade 9 student in 2009 — was
known as an "at-risk" student with academic,
see Educator > pg. 7
