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VEHICLE MANUFACTURING
TRW Canada
Woodstock, Ont.
(120 operators, millwrights, electricians) and Unifor, Local 636
Renewal agreement: Effective
Feb. 11, 2017, to Feb. 7, 2020.
Signed on Feb. 11, 2017.
Wage adjustments:
Effective first year: $0.20 per
hour
Effective second year: $0.20 per
hour
Shift premium: $0.65 per
hour and midnight shift $0.80
Labourer fired after breaking window
by forcibly slamming office door
AFTER HE was told to remove
his hoodie for safety reasons, a la-
bourer working at Harbour Grace
CS was terminated after a violent
door slamming.
Chad Whalen worked at the
cold storage fish processing com-
pany as a casual labourer from
2012 to 2015, but he was placed on
the seniority list after completing
500 hours of work in December
2015.
On Oct. 11, 2016, Whalen and
Alfred Dove, lead-hand, were
Vancouver X-ray technologist suspended
after three sexual assault convictions
Hospital concerned
about public perception
WHEN A British Columbia hospital found out
about an X-ray technologist who was being in-
vestigated by the RCMP for sexual assaults of pa-
tients, the worker was put on duties that included
him having no contact with patients.
The technologist, who was 59 years old, had al-
most 30 years of seniority with the employer.
But in November 2017, the RCMP advised hos-
pital management that the technologist (whose
name was not provided), was being charged with
three separate sexual assaults, that allegedly oc-
curred in 1990, 1997 and 2001 on three different
patients.
Since the technologist had already spent the
previous 18 months doing work that was well be-
June 25, 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
First contract signed
About 90 workers at regional
carrier Air Georgian in Mississauga,
Ont., ratified first-ever deal
with Unifor as their union
Edmonton Women's Shelter — Alberta pg. 3 Corporation of the City of
Peterborough — Ontario pg. 4 Freedom Mobile — Ontario pg. 5 North
American Maintenance — Alberta pg. 6 Okanagan Regional Library —
British Columbia pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Worker's > pg. 8
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