Select 2007 Decisions

Compass Group Canada (Health Services) Ltd., v. Hospital Employees’ Union et al, 2007 BCCA 237
The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the B.C. Labour Relations Board that found that a single unit of support workers employed by the Compass, whether working under the division name of Crothall or Morrison, was an appropriate bargaining unit for the purpose of collective bargaining...more

Michael Nolin et. al, –and– Wal-Mart Canada Corp –and– United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1518, BCLRB No. B55/2007 (leave for reconsideration of BCLRB No. B123/2006)
The Union was conducting an organizing campaign at the Wal-Mart in Dawson Creek. One employee contacted Mr. Nolin, a labour lawyer in Saskatchewan, for advice in fighting the Union’s organizing efforts. Mr. Nolin provided a letter which he told the employee to distribute. The Board found that Mr. Nolin breached the Code as his letters included statements that were intimidating and coercive, principally that the employees could lose their job by unionizing. The letter also contained numerous inaccurate statements about the law and the conduct of the Union.

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Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 402 –and– City of Surrey, March 27, 2007 (Burke)
As a result of concerns over being able to recruit new employees in certain highly sought after occupations, the Employer started to hire some new employees at a step higher than step 1 of the wage grid for their classification...More

Certain Employees of PR Foods Ltd. –and– PR Foods –and– United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union, Local 1518, BCLRB No. B176/2006 (application for reconsideration dismissed, BCLRB No. B92/2007)
The Board dismissed an application for decertification...More

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