‘Dishonest dealings with your employer always merits severe discipline’: lawyer
An Alberta arbitrator has upheld the firing of a union president from his job for his involvement in an illegal strike and his dishonesty during the employer’s investigation into the matter.
The worker was a driver for Coca-Cola Canada Bottling in the company’s Edmonton distribution centre. Hired in 2007, he delivered the company’s products from the facility to customers in the area.
The collective agreement stipulated that Coca-Cola had the discretion for final allocation of delivery routes for the drivers, although for several years the company allowed drivers to choose their daily delivery routes based on seniority.
In May 2023, the worker was elected union president, although he didn’t have much experience in union business.
A few weeks later, on June 16, the company notified the union that it would be ending the practice of allowing drivers to select their own routes and exercising its right under the collective agreement to select routes itself.
Three days later, the company asked all drivers on the overtime rotation list to perform off-duty overtime the next day. No drivers responded to the callout and 13 product routes were held for delivery until the next day.
On June 20, the company made another call for off-duty overtime for the next day, but again no drivers responded. Twenty-two of the product routes had to be held for delivery until June...
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