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May 29, 2017
TRANSPORTATION
London Transit Commission
London, Ont.
(440 maintenance, transit operators) and Amalgamated
Transit Union (ATU), Local 741
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2016, to March 31,
2019. Signed on Nov. 30, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 2016: 2%
Effective April 2017: 2%
Effective April 2018: 2%
Shift premium: 1.25 times
for all work on Sunday. $0.75
per hour for conducting class-
room instruction for defensive
driving. $0.20 per hour for
mechanic instructing other
mechanics on bench work only.
$0.25 per hour for any fleet &
facilities instruction for filling
vacancies due to sickness. $0.35
per hour for licenced journey-
man instructing or supervising
apprentice. $0.75 per hour for
inspectors, dispatchers, ticket
clerks training in own clas-
sifications. $0.50 per hour for
dispatcher shifts beginning
Calgary blood services nurse
fired for not following script
WHEN SHE was observed devi-
ating from written questions to
potential blood donors, a Calgary
nurse was fired.
Sharon Johnston began work-
ing for Canadian Blood Services
(CBS) in 1999 as a registered
nurse in the organization's Leth-
bridge, Alta., office before being
transferred to Calgary in 2013.
Her job was as a donor screener,
which meant she asked written
questions in an effort to prop-
erly vet people who wished to give
blood.
But during job evaluation ob-
servations on Dec. 5 and 10, 2013,
Sherie Lartner, also a registered
nurse tasked with making a judge-
ment on Johnston's routine, she
was found to be unsatisfactory
when she omitted certain ques-
tions and paraphrased others.
Johnston also didn't follow
standard operating procedure
when she neglected to consult the
donor selection criteria manual
when she received an affirmative
Saskatchewan worker's dismissal
unfair labour practice: Board
Discipline skipped when
worker got involved in
union organizing drive
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
A SASKATCHEWAN worker has been rein-
stated after the Saskatchewan Labour Relations
Board found that his dismissal was related to his
union organizing efforts more than his disciplin-
ary record.
Grant Goerzen was hired in April 2013 by the
City of Warman to be a public works equipment
operator. Less than one year later, Goerzen was
hauling snow with a dump truck when he drove
out of the snow dump with his box raised, pulling
down a telephone line. The city gave him a verbal
reprimand.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Strathcona Mechanical — Alberta pg. 3 Dynamex Canada — British
Columbia pg. 4 Canadian Museum of History — Quebec pg. 5 Comfort
Cab — Saskatchewan pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Howard
Sandler
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
Pot workers unionize
Canna Clinic believed to be first
medical marijuana dispensary to
join union: Unifor
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
St. John's mechanic blocked from transfer back to bargaining unit pg. 6
see Arbitration > pg 6
see Admonishment > pg. 7
