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Atlantic Gold Employees Join the United Steelworkers
April 22, 2021 GMT
MOOSE RIVER, Nova Scotia (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 22, 2021
Employees of the Atlantic Gold mining operations in Moose River, N.S., have voted to join the United Steelworkers (USW) union.
After a majority of employees signed union cards in order to join the USW, an application to certify the union was filed with the Nova Scotia Labour Board. The Labour Board ordered a vote by employees and a large majority of workers voted in favour of joining the union.
WINNIPEG The lawyer for a union representing health care workers told a Manitoba Labour Board hearing a union support officer’s employment was not renewed because of job performance, not because the worker filed a respectful workplace complaint against her boss. Sherlynn Delaney, 62, filed a complaint with the Labour Board alleging she was wrongfully dismissed from her job as a union support officer after filing a respectful workplace complaint against CUPE Local 204 president Debbie Boissonneault and a human rights complaint against the union. In an opening statement, Kristine Barr, lawyer for CUPE Local 204, told the hearing Delaney was initially hired in Jan. 2018 on a one-year term, with an option to extend.
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Bezos Lays Out Amazon’s Strategic Shift, Defends Work Practices After Failed Union Bid We are going to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to Work, Bezos said
Amazon founder and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, told shareholders in his final letter as chief executive that the company needs to “do a better job” for its employees, while signaling a strategic shift in Amazon’s priorities and pushing back against criticism of its work practices.
Bezos said in the letter that Amazon is expanding its mission to give more prominence to workplace safety and employee satisfaction.