The Union filed a grievance seeking to significantly restrict the company’s management right to contract out work, claiming that but for where the work fell within one of a few specific exceptions, the Collective Agreement prohibited the company from contracting out work unless it could establish that contracting out was necessary. Arbitrator Blasina dismissed the Grievance finding that the Collective Agreement did not restrict or prohibit the company’s right to contract out work and only required the company to notify the Union of certain information where it contracted out work that did not fall within one of the few exceptions.
Fasken was Counsel for the Employer.
