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BATHROOM MANUFACTURING
Mirolin Industries
Toronto
(190 production workers) and the United
Steelworkers (USW), Local 13571-16
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2020.
Signed on July 1, 2017.
Shift premium: $0.70 per hour
for afternoons. $1 per hour for
midnights.
Paid holidays: 10 days.
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks
Union alleges senior custodian
overlooked during hiring process
A SCHOOL custodian at the New
Maryland Elementary School in
New Maryland, N.B., had worked
as a custodian 1 and a school bus
driver when she applied for an
open custodian 2 position.
Olivia Grass worked for the
employer, the Department of
Education and Early Childhood
Development, since 2014 and
submitted her name for consider-
ation when the position came
open at the Harvey Elementary
School in April 2017.
Employer discriminated against teachers
in private-school union drive: Arbitrator
First contract negotiated
despite tense bargaining
DURING NEGOTIATIONS for a first union
contract at the Islamic Foundation School (IFS) in
Toronto, the school's principal advised the union
that the tuition benefit would soon be discounted.
The benefit had been in place since the forma-
tion of the school in 1998. It offered teachers a 50
per cent reduction to the $450-per-month rate the
school charged.
But on Sept. 8, 2017, Syed Akbar Warsi,
vice-president, sent an email to all teachers. "Br
Akbar has asked me to inform you that the 50 per
cent staff discount offered to IFS teachers with
children in the school is currently under union ne-
gotiations."
Jehan Ahamed, union representative with the
June 11, 2018
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg 8
2 0 1 7
READERS'
LABOUR RELATIONS
TRAINING PROVIDERS
CHOICE
irc.queensu.ca
Strategic Grievance Handling, July 17-20, 2018: Halifax
Developing Techniques & processes to Manage Grievances Efficiently
Mastering Fac t Finding & Investigation, July 17-20, 2018: Kingston
Building Internal Capacity to Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Deal rejected
Latest effort to resolve strike of
about 400 city workers in Cornwall,
Ont., fails again as CUPE
says no to offer
Black Ball Transport — British Columbia pg. 4 Thorhild County — Alberta
pg. 4 Clean Harbors Energy and Industrial Services — Alberta pg. 5
City of Moncton — New Brunswick pg. 6 Ivaco Rolling Mills — Ontario
pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Worker > pg. 8
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