Select July 2005 Decisions

Cardinal Transportation B.C. Incorporated –and- Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 561, BCLRB No. B184/2005
In this case the Board rejected the employer’s arguments that a bargaining unit of well over 100 school bus drivers and aides was not appropriate for collective bargaining because it excluded a number of charter bus drivers...more

RMH Teleservices International Inc. –and- B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union –and- B.C. Federation of Labour –and- Business Council of B.C. –and- Coalition of B.C. Businesses, BCLRB No. B188/2005 (Leave for Reconsideration of BCLRB No. B345/2003)
This is an important policy decision of the Labour Relations Board concerning unfair labour practices under the Liberal amendments to the Labour Relations Code. The Union was engaged in an organizing campaign at a large call center employing over a thousand employees. The Union filed a complaint that the employer had violated the Code by various actions, including by holding large employee meetings concerning the organizing campaign in the workplace during working hours, having a team of managers distribute daily gifts emblazoned with anti-union messages to employees at their workstations, and dimming the lights and projecting anti-union messages on the walls of the workplace for days on end. The original panel found that none of these actions violated the Code. The Union applied for reconsideration and in this decision the reconsideration panel found that both the projected messages and the gift distribution constituted unfair labour practices. The issue of remedy for these violations was remitted back to the original panel to decide.

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Wal-Mart Canada Corp. -and- United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union, Local 1518, BCLRB No. B190/2005
This was an application for certification of the employees in the Tire and Lube Express (“TLE”) departments at seven Wal-Mart stores across the province...more

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