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..more

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. The TLE departments are made up of employees who work in service bays performing automotive services, and employees who work in the automotive retail department inside each store. The Union argued that a unit made up of only the TLE employees working in the service bay was an appropriate bargaining unit, and in the alternative that a unit made up of all employees in the TLE department was an appropriate unit. The Board found that, while a unit made up of the service bay employees was inappropriate, a unit of all TLE employees at the seven stores was an appropriate unit for collective bargaining. The Board also found that, if it was wrong and the TLE unit was not appropriate under the usual test for appropriateness, the unit would still be appropriate under the more relaxed standard of appropriateness applied to “traditionally difficult to organize” sectors of the economy. The Board found that, since the department store industry was a more difficult sector to organize than other industries, and since Wal-Mart fell within the “department store sector”, the more relaxed standard was applicable to the TLE bargaining unit.

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