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May 8, 2017
Lesser-grade assignment
grieved by B.C. coal miner
WHEN HE was assigned to work
a shift in a lower-rated position, a
B.C. coal miner was not pleased
that a junior worker worked a
higher-graded position that day.
Jim Campbell worked at Teck
Coal in Elk Valley, B.C., when on
July 14, 2015, he was assigned to
a load out operator position. He
noticed during that same shift
that Scott Miller — who had less
seniority — was working as a plant
operator on the dryer floor.
Campbell's seniority began
Surveillance leads to dismissal
of Ontario steel mill worker
Man hurt arm on the job
but used same limb
for yard work on vacation
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO worker who wasn't straightfor-
ward about how quickly his workplace injury was
healing deserved discipline but didn't deserve to
get fired, an arbitrator has ruled.
Gerdau Ameristeel operated a mini steel mill
in Whitby, Ont., where the worker was hired as
a millman in 2003. In February 2013, the worker
was moved into a mill finisher position, which in-
volved physically demanding work. He had no dis-
cipline on his record.
A few months later, on May 23, 2013, the work-
er injured his right arm at work. He was cutting
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
St. James-Assiniboia School Division No. 2 — Manitoba pg. 3 Saint John
Mechanical Contractors Employer's Association — New Brunswick pg. 4
Sunrise Village (High River) Holdings — Alberta pg. 5
St. Amant — Manitoba pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
branislavpudar
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
Liberté workers join UFCW
Quebec Yoplait plant employees
become members of United Food
and Commercial Workers
Canada union
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Part-time postal worker in Newfoundland not paid for lunch breaks pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
see Employee > pg. 7
SENIOR CARE
Homeland Housing
Gibbons, Alta.
(48 kitchen, operations staff ) and Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1461
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2017, to Dec. 31, 2017.
Ratified on March 29, 2017.
Signed on March 29, 2017.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 1%
Effective July 1, 2017: 1%
Shift premium: Evening shift
Monday to Friday: $0.75 per
hour. Night shift Monday to
