An arbitrator has ordered the Toronto Transit Commission to immediately stop randomly testing its safety-sensitive employees for drugs and alcohol, ruling the seven-year-old program violates both the Charter of Rights… …
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PREMIUM Toronto Transit Commission ordered to reinstate operator fired after drug test
The Toronto Transit Commission has been ordered to reinstate a subway operator it fired following a non-compliant random drug test, after a labour arbitrator found the testing violated the Ontario… …
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PREMIUM TTC bus driver’s firing over cannabis test overturned by arbitrator
A Toronto Transit Commission bus operator fired after a random drug test came back non-compliant for cannabis has been ordered reinstated with full compensation, after an Ontario labour arbitrator found… …
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Metrolinx wins dismissal of 36 COVID-19 vaccine policy grievances after workers placed on unpaid leave
The Ontario Grievance Settlement Board has dismissed grievances filed by 36 Metrolinx workers who were placed on unpaid leave for failing to comply with the transit agency’s COVID-19 vaccination polic… …
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PREMIUM TTC track patroller fired for time theft loses grievance
A Toronto Transit Commission track patroller who was fired for time theft has lost his bid to get his job back, after an arbitrator found he spent hours of paid… …
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Arbitrator adopts flexible timeline for evidence in TTC one-person subway operation grievance
An arbitrator has ruled that the union representing Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway operators can continue introducing evidence about the safety of one-person train operation (OPTO) until the … Free …
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City of Edmonton ruling finds employer cannot dictate union bargaining representatives
The Alberta Labour Relations Board has ruled that the City of Edmonton breached its duty to bargain in good faith when it refused to meet with transit workers’ union representatives …
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Ontario’s top court upholds Metrolinx’s firing of five employees for sexual harassment in WhatsApp group
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld Metrolinx’s termination of five transit employees who made sexually harassing comments about a female colleague in a private WhatsApp group, overturning an arbit… …
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Edmonton bus driver, fired for safety violations, loses duty of fair representation fight against union
The Alberta Labour Relations Board has dismissed an unfair labour practice complaint brought by a former Edmonton transit operator who alleged his union failed to fairly represent him in disciplinary …
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Union did not breach duty of fair representation in TTC streetcar driver’s firing, tribunal rules
A labour tribunal has dismissed a duty of fair representation complaint brought by a former Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) streetcar driver against Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union. The …