Select August 2005 Decisions

Sobeys Capital Incorporated, BCLRB No. B197/2005
The Employer operates a grocery store in Fort St. John. The UFCW applied for certification of a unit of all employees except those in the office and the meat department. The Labour Relations Board found that the bargaining unit sought by the UFCW was an appropriate unit even though the meat department employees shared some community of interest with employees within the unit. The Board concluded that there was no functional integration between the meat department and other departments that served to defeat the application. The Board also rejected the Employer’s argument that the many grocery store certifications held by the UFCW which exclude the meat department reflected the distinct nature of meat cutting work in the past and were no longer appropriate given the contemporary nature of the work. The Board went on to conclude that Sobey’s discharged an employee without proper cause after the UFCW application was filed and ordered that the ballot she cast in the vote must be counted. Finally, the Board said that the ballots cast by an employee who was going to retire and certain new hires should be counted, but that a ballot cast by an employee on an indefinite medical leave should not.

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Compass Group Canada (Health Services) Ltd., BCLRB No. B200/2005
The HEU applied to represent employees of Compass at sites operated under the auspices of the Provincial Health Services Authority (“PHSA”)...more

Trevor J. Lowe Holdings Ltd. (Canadian Tire Associate Store) –and– UFCW Local 1518, BCLRB No. B212/2005
In this decision the Labour Relations Board found that the employer had breached the Labour Relations Code by threatening employees with dismissal for union organizing activities...more

Vieira v. Maple Ridge Teachers’ Association and B.C. Teachers’ Association et al., 2005 BCHRT 350
In this case, the Complainant had filed a human rights complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against the Union and a number of other respondents, alleging discrimination relating to the settlement of the Complainant’s grievance...more

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