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August 7, 2017
FOOD MANUFACTURING
Coca Cola Refreshments
Canada Company
Brampton, Ont.
(810 production workers) and Unifor Local 973
Renewal agreement: Effective
June 11, 2016, to June 14, 2019.
Signed on Sept. 30, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective year 1: $500
Effective year 2: 1.9%
Ontario postal worker terminated
for not meeting standard gets job back
Canada Post employee
didn't fullfill criteria of
'reasonable availability'
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
CANADA POST unjustly dismissed a postal
clerk for unreasonable availability that wasn't spe-
cifically defined in the collective agreement, an ar-
bitrator has ruled.
C. Seivright was a temporary postal clerk for
Canada Post, hired in November 2011. His of-
fer of employment stated that his "services may
or may not be required on a daily basis" and he
would be contacted when he was needed to fill
in for full-time employees who were absent and
unable to work. It also indicated that his position
was "of a temporary and irregular nature" and he
had to be reasonably available when work assign-
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pg. 2
Conciliation reboot
Union for about 8,000 Nova Scotia
civil servants agrees to two days
of new contract talks with
provincial government
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see 'No consideration' > pg. 7
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Winnipeg International Airport — Manitoba pg. 3 Federated Co-operatives — Alberta
pg. 4 Sunwing Airlines — Multiprovince pg. 4 Wood Buffalo Housing & Development,
Marshall House — Alberta pg. 5 Spectra Energy — British Columbia pg. 5
Government of Canada (Operational Services) — Ontario pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Vancouver Island cashier fired after returning steaks to Save-On store pg. 8
TTC fare collector reinstated
despite drug possession arrest
WHEN HE took home a fare box
containing almost $40,000 in cash
and fares, a Toronto Transit Com-
mission (TTC) employee was ter-
minated after police confiscated
the box.
On July 28, 2014, Tyson Hu —
who worked as a station collector
since 2011 — finished his shift at
Lawrence station and went home
with the fare box.
He should have left it locked up
at the station instead of transport-
ing the fares and cash, according
see Arbitration > pg. 8 see Collective agreements > pg. 3
