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April 16, 2018
Worker grieves temporary layoff
from East Coast job site
A HEAVY equipment operator
was temporarily laid off due to
lack of work, but he later discov-
ered a less-senior employee had
worked his shifts instead.
Trent Bishop had worked at
Pardy's Waste Management in
Newfoundland and Labrador
since 2013, when on June 1, 2017,
he began a 10-night shift rotation
at the Muskrat Falls site, doing wa-
ter delivery, garbage disposal and
septic-vacuum-truck services for
the employer.
LIBRARIES
Hamilton Library
Hamilton, Ont.
(140 librarians, technical workers, custodians, administrative, drivers)
and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 932
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2017, to Dec. 31, 2020.
Signed on Jan. 30, 2017.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2%
Paid holidays: 11 days, plus 1
floating holiday.
Lying about separated shoulder injury
gets Langley, B.C., worker terminated
Claimed fall in parking lot
caused damage but
video showed otherwise
AFTER HE suffered a separated shoulder just
before he was scheduled to begin a shift, a worker
at the Deere-Hitachi Specialty Products manu-
facturing facility in Langley, B.C., lied when he
informed his employer about why the injury hap-
pened.
James Nixon had worked at the company since
June 26, 2017, when on Nov. 10 he drove into the
company parking lot at 12:30 p.m., well in time to
make his 1 p.m. shift start as a paint technician.
Nixon checked in with the office, and then he
returned to his car for a final cigarette before he
began work. At around 12:50 p.m., he left his car
but turned around to throw his jacket onto the
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg 8
2 0 1 7
READERS'
LABOUR RELATIONS
TRAINING PROVIDERS
CHOICE
irc.queensu.ca
Managing Unionized Environments, May 15-17, 2018: Halifax
Living the Collective Agreement
Labour Relations Foundations, May 28 - June 1, 2018: Vic toria
Laying the Groundwork for Excellence in Union-Management Relations
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Offer rejected
Locked-out workers at D-J
Composites in Gander, N.L., said
no to the latest contract
proposal by 97 per cent
ASIG Canada (Menzies Aviation) — Alberta pg. 3 City of Winnipeg —
Manitoba pg. 4 K+S Windsor Salt (Ojibway Mine) — Ontario pg. 5
Kubota Materials Canada (Fahramet Division) — Ontario pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Differential > pg. 8
