Filed at the Nova Scotia Labour Board on Wednesday January, 31, 2024.
Schedules A and B.

Overview

1. The Complainant, Service Employees International Union Local 2, Brewery General and Professional Workers’ Union (“SEIU”) alleges the Respondent has violated sections 53 and 58 of the Trade Union Act (“the Act”) by terminating union organizers in retaliation for organizing a union in their workplace. The Employer has enacted this retaliation under the guise of layoffs required to maintains financial stability. However, in doing so the Employer has terminated only twenty-five percent (25%) of the workforce, but a full one hundred percent (100%) of the Union’s organizing committee. Furthermore, the impacted workers, who are living paycheck-to paycheck, have been told that they will only receive desperately needed severance if they give up their rights under the Trade Union Act. For the reasons which are further particularized in this complaint, the Employer’s conduct has all the hallmarks of an orchestrated campaign of retaliation aimed at crushing workers’ rights.

2. As a remedy, the Union will be seeking orders that: all affected workers are reinstated, general and pecuniary damages to the impacted workers and the Union itself, declaratory relief, and that the Board’s decision be posted in the workplace.