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May 21, 2018
Union grieves after discovering
surveillance cameras in plant
AFTER A strike that led to bad
feelings between striking and
non-striking employees at a large
Winnipeg-area manufacturing
facility, the company had 18 cam-
eras installed to deter potential
violence at the workplace.
Carte International and its
workers agreed to end a conten-
tious strike in 2000 and the com-
pany decided it needed to install
security cameras. It signed a
back-to-work agreement with
the union that included the line:
PIPING MANUFACTURING
IPEX
Edmonton
(157 production employees) and Unifor, Local 21-A
Renewal agreement: Effect-
ive Sept. 16, 2017, to Sept. 15,
2021. Ratified on Nov. 21, 2017.
Signed on Sept. 16, 2017.
Wage adjustments:
Effective first year: 1%
Effective second year: 2%
Effective third year: 2%
Effective fourth year: 2%
Shift premium: 5% for every
St. John's butter maker grieves decision
after company doesn't pay premium
Payments meant for
dairy pasteurizers alone
A WORKING foreman at the St. John's Agropur
dairy plant grieved after he felt that a $1-per-hour
premium was not being applied to his hours.
Terry O'Neill, had worked for the employer
since 1984, and he regularly made butter from
cream or milk. He testified that he considered
himself to be a butter batcher, because he takes the
raw material and processes it into batches of but-
ter.
As well, O'Neill worked in what he called a "but-
ter-batching room" which was located directly be-
side another batching room
According to a June 18, 2015, letter of under-
standing, "employees required to work in a batch
processor or HTST (high temperature/short
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ARBITRATION
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COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg 8
2 0 1 7
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Laying the Groundwork for Excellence in Union-Management Relations
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Tentative agreement
Deal reached at Algoma Steel
despite company still affected by
2015 creditor-protection
arrangement
Construction Labour Relations Association of Newfoundland and
Labrador — Newfoundland and Labrador pg. 3 Youth Services Bureau of
Ottawa — Ontario pg. 4 University of Guelph — Ontario pg. 5 Municipal
District of Spirit River — Alberta pg. 5 Owens Corning — Alberta pg. 6
Quickload CEF — British Columbia pg. 7 Southern Alberta Community
Living Association — Alberta pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see No 'monitoring' > pg. 8
