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March 12, 2018
Union grieves denial of access
to workers at northern B.C. mine
AFTER IT was denied access to
members at a remote northern
British Columbia mine, a union
took its case to arbitration.
Teamsters, Local 213 officials
wanted to regularly visit employ-
ees of Coeur Silvertip Holdings
mine, located eight kilometres
south of the border with Yukon.
The closest community is Watson
Lake, Yukon, which is about 140
kilometres away.
The union wanted more regu-
lar access to members of the bar-
AUTO MANUFACTURING
General Motors of Canada
St. Catharines, Ont.
(2,670 production workers) and the Union
Renewal agreement: Effective
Sept. 20, 2016, to Sept. 21, 2020.
Signed on Sept. 25, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Sept. 20, 2016: 2%
Effective Sept. 23, 2019: 2%
Shift premium: $0.25 per
hour for employee working in
necessary continuous 7-day
operations whose occupations
SaskTel retail employee in Regina fired
after falsifying sick note from doctor
Doctor told employer
dates didn't match up
AFTER SHE took time off for what she claimed
was an illness, a worker copied and pasted an old
doctor's note with different dates, so Saskatch-
ewan Telecommunications decided to fire her.
The woman, identified as "JV," testified that in
2014 she suffered a series of misfortunate occur-
rences in her personal life, which precipitated her
to forge a note. She worked at a retail location in
Regina.
JV had worked for SaskTel from 2007, but on
July 23, 2014, she was terminated.
The union, Unifor, Local S-1, acknowledged
that JV did something wrong by falsifying the
document, but said dismissal was too harsh of a
punishment.
On July 4, 2014, Shirley Klein, occupational
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg. 12
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Agreement reached
Workers at Canadian Blood
Services in Ontario agree to new
contract after previous one
turned down
Westshore Terminals — British Columbia pg. 4 Nav Canada —
Multiprovince pg. 4 Black Mountain Irrigation District — British Columbia
pg. 5 Sodexo Canada — Alberta pg. 6 College Employer Council —
Ontario pg. 6 Armtec — Alberta pg. 7 Nelson Lumber Company —
Alberta pg. 8 Commercial Cleaning Services, Hastings County — Ontario
pg. 10 The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede — Alberta pg. 10
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see 24-kilometre > pg. 12
