If you have questions about your rights in the workplace, the best person you can talk to is your steward or local leader. You will know the details of your agreement. All CUPE members work under the protection of a collective agreement called a collective agreement. Your local union negotiates the terms of the agreement. Elected local union leaders also work with the employer to resolve workplace issues. BSD Board Chair Linda Ross declined to comment on tuesday`s verdict and said she and the department`s legal team were still on the long-running decision. According to arbitration documents released Monday and made available to The Sun by the BTA, a panel of three arbitrators ruled that Brandon`s school division violated several sections of the collective agreement with teachers. But the financial situation is not bright for all the departments of the school. Many, under the Progressive Conservative government, have complained about the reduction of provincial subsidies or increases below the rate of inflation. They were ordered to limit the property tax increase to 2% per year. When the Sun spoke with Dunbar on Tuesday morning, the BTA had not yet contacted the department to discuss the decision, but said the communication had been shut down within the day.

If you want a copy of your collective agreement on paper, talk to your trustee. If you don`t know who your administrator is or how to contact your office, contact the CUPE office near you. However, she expressed disappointment that the verdict was largely opposed to the partition. The Board of Arbitration stated that its decision is not a financial environment in which the province prioritizes moderation of spending, recognizing the department may have to make “painful” decisions to pay retroactive salaries. “Division will have to live under these constraints.” Arbitrators also found that staff meetings at George Fitton School had become collaborative meetings and the number of meetings had doubled. They decided that this required teachers to attend more than twice as many sessions as outside the school day, and that this was not fair. The division will pay $5.2 million by July.