National Grievance File
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The Corporation is amending or intends to amend the criteria used for determining “business directs” and the monetary or other values that are provided for in the activity component of Appendix ’’A’’ of the collective agreement. In so doing, the Corporation is assigning a value not consistent with the activity component for certain types of business direct deliveries. The employer is making this change to working conditions in violation of the provisions of the collective agreement.
Following several meetings between the parties, the employer informed the Union on or about February 9, 2015 of an erroneous definition/interpretation it intended to apply to the Short-Term Disability Insurance Plan (STDP) in relation to the definitions of accident and hospitalization when applying Article 17 of the collective agreement.
Furthermore, as part of the final appeal process, the employer is imposing a time limit on the union representatives for submitting their arguments at the final level on behalf of an employee, failing which the employer is instructing the independent medical physician to render his or her decision without the Union’s input or arguments.
Following several meetings between the parties, the employer informed the Union on or about February 9, 2015 of an erroneous definition/interpretation it intended to apply to the Short-Term Disability Insurance Plan (STDP) in relation to the definitions of accident and hospitalization when applying Article 17 of the collective agreement.
Furthermore, as part of the final appeal process, the employer is imposing a time limit on the union representatives for submitting their arguments at the final level on behalf of an employee, failing which the employer is instructing the independent medical physician to render his or her decision without the Union’s input or arguments.
The Corporation is unilaterally amending the work method by adding a new function for RSMC use to scan the barcode on the Delivery Control Slip (DCS) with no amendment to the monetary or other values that are provided for in the activity component of Appendix “A” of the collective agreement. In so doing, the Corporation is not recognizing or compensating the new activity component in the Appendix “A”. The employer is making this change to working conditions in violation of the provisions of the collective agreement.