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Re Maritime Employers Assoc And Halifax Longshoremen's Assoc, Ila Local 269, Innis Christie

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Employer Grievance alleging illegal work stoppage.

The facts

On Saturday, May 10, 1975, Halterm Limited ordered 14 men for the work period from 1800 to 0800 hours the following morning, to perform work on M/V "Columbus Australia". The order was for "a fourteen-man gang unit to perform heavy lifts", or words to that effect. Some evidence was led by both parties at the hearing with regard to the exact terminology of this order and there was consid­erable discussion of its significance. Although the point is undoubt­edly of importance to the parties, for the purpose of this grievance I do not …

The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie

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The public has recently been made aware of special difficulties affecting farm labour. In August, 1973 the Report of a Federal Department of Agriculture team entitled "The Seasonal Farm Labour Situation in Southwestern Ontario" ' emphasized the deplorable living and working conditions, on some farms at least, of the seasonal labourers hired to harvest field crops in southwestern Ontario. Heavy media coverage erupted almost immediately, and there was renewed coverage in the autumn of 1974. Much less sensationally, through the spring and summer of 1974, the media gave coverage to special efforts by the government at both the Federal and …