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July 3, 2017
Bell Canada technician's
moving expenses denied
WHEN a long-time employee's
office was moved from London,
Ont., to Mississauga, Ont., he re-
quested the company help him
cover the increased costs of living
in a different city.
Bruce Verge began working at
Bell Canada in 1998. In 2013, the
director of service operations ad-
vised all 15 employees working at
the London office "there was no
way that he could guarantee that
the office was going to stay open."
On Jan. 23, 2014, the company
advised all workers they had to
choose between accepting sever-
ance, retiring or moving to one of
the company's locations in Missis-
sauga or Toronto.
Verge was the only employee
who accepted a move to another
location.
Ghada Sharkawy, senior con-
sultant in Bell's human resources
department, sent an email to the
union Jan. 16, and attached a link
to the company's relocation as-
sistance page located on Bell
CUPE wins appeal after tribunal finds
no evidence of dangerous contaminants
Air Canada ordered
to notify employees
of health hazard
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
THE Federal Court has overturned a health and
safety tribunal's findings that Air Canada flight
crew members didn't have a legitimate reason to
refuse work over strange smells on aircraft caused
by leaking oil and other fluids.
On June 23, 2011, an Air Canada plane was
scheduled to fly from Edmonton to Vancouver,
and then from Vancouver to Toronto. The service
director on the plane for both flights was Francis-
co Diaz Delgado and he was accompanied by two
flight attendants on each flight.
Shortly after takeoff of the Edmonton to Van-
couver flight, Diaz Delgado noticed a smell that
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Horizon School Division No. 67 — Alberta pg. 3 Corporation of the City of
Peterborough — Ontario pg. 3 The Salvation Army Addictions & Residential Centre —
Alberta pg. 4 Skookum Jim Friendship Centre — Yukon pg. 5 Rodmen Employer
Bargaining Agency — Ontario pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Lester
Balajadia
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
New OPSEU members
Fifty-eight employees at non-
profit Four Villages health centre
in Toronto agree to join
public sector union
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
British Columbia sawmill worker terminated for ongoing insubordination pg. 6
see Contradictory > pg. 7
AUTO MANUFACTURING
Oakgroup Automotive
Corporation
Mississauga, Ont.
(150 manufacturing workers) and Teamsters Canada Local 879
Renewal agreement: Effective
Oct. 1, 2016, to Sept. 30, 2021.
Signed on Feb. 9, 2017.
Paid holidays: 9 days. Employ-
ees will be paid time and one-
half for working on Family Day.
Vacations with pay: 4% to
start, 2 weeks or 4% after 1 year,
3 weeks or 6% after 5 years, 4
weeks or 10% after 10 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half
for all hours worked after 44
hours per week.
Medical benefits: Employer
will pay coverage for Teamsters'
Local 879 Health and Welfare
Plan.
Dental: Basic/preventative:
80% coverage; routine and ma-
jor: $2,000 per year. Endodon-
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 6
