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November 6, 2017
NDP constituency office worker
terminated after questionable tweet
Employee displayed
'gross misconduct'
regarding MPP: Employer
AFTER A TWEET was posted by a constituen-
cy assistant directed at the member of provincial
parliament (MPP) for London West in Ontario,
the worker was dismissed for "gross misconduct."
Kathy Clee was discharged in April 2017 from
the office of Peggy Sattler, the NDP representative
for the riding.
On March 25, 2017, a tweet by Clee was sent
from an Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
women's conference that Clee attended. It read:
"To my MPP @PeggySattlerNDP from us at
#OFLsistertosister" and displayed a hand-written
sign that read: "I want Decent Work because…."
When she was terminated, the letter accused
Clee of a "thinly veiled denouncement of me as
MINING
Gibraltar Mines
Williams Lake, B.C.
(480 mine workers) and Unifor Local 3018
Renewal agreement: Effective
June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2021.
Signed on March 24, 2017.
Shift premium: $0.50 per hour
for holder of level 3 first-aid
certificate. $0.85 per hour (pre-
viously $0.75 per hour) for work
on night shift. $0.55 per hour
(previously $0.45 per hour) for
work on weekend. $0.50 per
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg. 8
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Deadline not met
PSAC files complaint with labour
board after Treasury Board said
it won't make collective
agreement timeline
Tbaytel — Ontario pg. 4 Allied Shipbuilder — British Columbia pg. 5 Shell
Canada (Jumping Pound Complex) — Alberta pg. 5 Shaw Conference Centre
— Alberta pg. 7 Battle River Regional Division #31 — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Six Kamloops, B.C., therapists
wrongly classified: Union
AFTER A reorganization, six oc-
cupational therapists who worked
in community mental health in
Kamloops, B.C., were moved into
a lower-rated grade 1 slot from
grade 2.
Laura Kitamura, Michelle
Zwolak, Joel Chisholm, Jillian
McCormick, Karin Schmidt and
Jennifer Sheeley were originally
classified as grade 2, which cov-
ered "an occupational therapist
required by the facility to work
without general supervision in the
see No > pg. 8
