Presentation: "Labour Relations Update for Unionized Employers"
It was the 2003 Lawson Lundell Labour & Employment Law client seminar today. Along with my co-presenter, I presented the "Labour Relations Update for Unionized Employers", which was a review of key...
View ArticlePresentation: "Labour Relations Update for Unionized Employers"
Today was the 2004 Lawson Lundell Labour & Employment Law annual client seminar. Along with my co-presenter, I did a presentation entitled "Labour Relations Update for the Unionized Employer",...
View ArticleCIRB reviews scope of union's entitlement to employee contact information
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ("CIRB") has recently ruled that: read more
View ArticleBC Maritime Employers Association and Int'l Longshoremen and Warehouse Union...
The BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union Local 514 have ratified a new collective agreement, according to a story in today's Globe and Mail.The...
View ArticleBC Court of Appeal further defines standard of review for arbitrations under...
In a case handed down last week, the BC Court of Appeal further defined the standard of review that applies to a labour arbitrator's decision, in light of the Supreme Court of Canada's (SCC's) decision...
View ArticleHRSDC launches newsletter for federally regulated employers
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has started publishing an electronic newsletter - the Labour Focus Newsletter - that federally regulated employers will want to read.Volume 1,...
View ArticleDefinition of "strike" in Canada Labour Code does not infringe on Charter of...
In Grain Workers' Union, Local 333 v. B.C. Terminal Elevator Operations' Association, 2009 FCA 201, the Federal Court of Appeal confirmed a decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board that the...
View ArticleNational union not liable, directly or vicariously, for deaths of 9 miners...
Fullowka v. Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd., 2010 SCC 5
View ArticleTeamsters Local 31 in contempt of court for impeding traffic during Rocky...
In Great Canadian Railtour Company Ltd. v. Teamsters Local Union No. 31 2011 BCSC 1720, the court found that the Teamsters Local Union 31, through its officers, had deliberately disobeyed a previous...
View ArticleCourt imposes $25,000 fine on Teamsters Local 31 for defiant picketing...
In Great Canadian Railtour Company Ltd. v. Teamsters Union, Local 31, 2012, BCSC 632 the BC Supreme Court imposed $25,000 fine on the union for its role picketing activities in contempt of a court...
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