Select April 2005 Decisions

Sodexho MS Canada Limited –and- Hospital Employees Union –and- United Steel Workers of America, Local 1-3567, BCLRB No. B87/2005
In this case the Board found that a voluntary collective agreement between the employer and USWA Local 1-3567 (the former IWA local headed by Sonny Ghag) did not bar an HEU application for certification...more

Budgell v. British Columbia (Labour Relations Board) et al., 2005 BCSC 487
In this case the Court dismissed an application for judicial review of a decision of the Labour Relations Board dismissing complaints that the Union had breached the duty of fair representation...more

Sodexho MS Canada Limited –and- Hospital Employees’ Union, BCLRB No. B102/2005
In this case the Board found that a voluntary collective agreement between the employer and USWA Local 1-3567 (the former IWA local headed by Sonny Ghag) did not bar an HEU application for certification because Local 1-3567 had taken no steps to preserve confidentiality in the ratification procedure...more

Kemess Mines ltd. –and- International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115 (Mark Gardiner Grievance) (Munroe) April 18, 2005
In this case the arbitrator ordered reinstatement of an employee discharged for smoking marijuana at a mine site contrary to the employer’s zero tolerance policy in that regard...more

Certain Employees of the British Columbia Cancer Agency (Genome Sciences Centre) –and- British Columbia Cancer Agency – and- Hospital Employees Union, BCLRB No. B113/2005
In this case the Board dismissed an application for partial decertification, finding that a rational and defensible line could not be drawn around the group seeking to decertify.

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