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Arbitrator Rules in MGEU's Favour on HCSS Part-Time Vacation Entitlement
February 5, 2010
In December, an arbitration was held on the issue of vacation for part-time employees in Health Care Support Services. The MGEU is pleased to announce that the arbitrator’s decision, which was handed down today, upheld the MGEU’s position in its entirety.

Arbitrator Awards Tenant Service Coordinators Significant Retroactive Increase
October 14, 2008
Twelve Tenant Service Coordinators who work for the Manitoba Department of Housing sought a reclassification of their jobs based on a significant change to their duties. The changes had come about in 2004 and 2005. The Union and government had negotiated for a long time to determine an appropriate wage rate, however, the matter could not be settled between the parties and was sent to arbitration.

Compensation for Travel Time Grievance Finally Determined
January 30, 2008
As we reported some time ago, the Union won a grievance which determined that a member should be compensated for travel time at overtime rates.

Talks Fail to Resolve Issues for Corrections - Arbitration Begins Feb 4
January 30, 2008
Members of the Corrections sub-component Bargaining Committee resumed talks with government late last week with an eye toward resolving some of the nine outstanding issues slated to go to arbitration.

Corrections Resume Negotiations
January 21, 2008
The MGEU’s Corrections Bargaining Committee and representatives from the Provincial Government will resume contract negotiations on Thursday, January 24, and Friday, January 25, 2008.

Correctional Officers Stage Successful Picket at Manitoba Legislature
January 4, 2008
Over 250 Manitoba Correctional Officers and supporters marched from the Winnipeg Convention Centre to the steps of the Manitoba Legislature to express dissatisfaction over lengthy contract negotiations and mishandling of health and safety issues.

Correctional Officers Want Justice Too!
January 4, 2008
Manitoba’s Correctional Officers will be holding an information picket commencing at noon today (more information can be found by clicking the links below). All participating Corrections employees are being asked to meet at the Winnipeg Convention Centre at 11am. We will be moving to the steps of the Manitoba Legislature along a predetermined route from there.

Manitoba Correctional Officers Blindsided by Government
December 21, 2007
The legal team representing the Province of Manitoba, and representatives of the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union (MGEU), were to begin an arbitration hearing this week to finally resolve an impasse involving a contract for Provincial Correctional Officers that has been in negotiations for over two years. Instead, Provincial lawyers informed MGEU late last week that they were using a technical legal maneuver to block the start of proceedings and further delay getting a contract for Manitoba’s 1,100 Corrections Officers.

Corrections Arbitration Postponed
December 14, 2007
The Corrections Arbitration hearing has been postponed. The province and the Attorney General’s office have raised a last minute preliminary argument that has to be dealt with before the arbitration can proceed.

Province Refuses to Pay Overtime for Travel Time
December 10, 2007
In August of 2006, the MGEU won an arbitration that required the government to pay employees at overtime rates for travel. Since that date, the Union has made repeated requests to the government to pay employees who should be compensated as a result of that Award. The MGEU had to return to the Arbitrator to hear arguments that the government was making in an attempt to limit the number of people who would receive a remedy. They were unsuccessful in this attempt.

Arbitrator Deems Termination Excessive
July 5, 2007
Late last year a 29-year employee of the Civil Service was terminated due to what the employer cited as a series of events which occurred throughout the summer of that year.

Arbitrator Limits Recovery of Overpayment
February 12, 2007
The MGEU took a case to arbitration after the employer demanded money be repaid as a result of their own payroll error repeated over a six-year period.

Important Decision On Travel Time Results In Overtime
August 30, 2006
On August 23rd, 2006 Arbitrator Michael Werier determined that time spent traveling beyond an employee’s regularly scheduled hours of work should be paid at overtime rates.

Arbitrator Rules on Leave of Absence Without Pay
August 15, 2006
The MGEU took a case to arbitration where three individuals were placed on leaves of absence without pay for two weeks while the government conducted an investigation.

Pregnant Employee Gets Merit Increase
August 15, 2006
The MGEU filed a grievance for an employee who was not provided her merit increase at the appropriate time after she returned from a maternity leave.

Sufficiency of Medical Certificates
August 15, 2006
In a recent arbitration decision, Arbitrator Riley ruled that it was unfair for the government to withhold sick leave benefits to a person who provided medical notes to the employer confirming an illness.