Unifor has filed an unfair labour practices complaint against Bell Canada, claiming the telecom giant was trying to pressure clerical workers to cross the picket line of an impending potential strike.
The union, which represents around 315,000 private-sector workers across Canada including Toronto Star employees, filed its complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board on July 26, alleging that Bell improperly pressured its workers over email to work during strike action.
“This is part of a growing trend,” he said, where big corporations pit workers against each other to undermine the integrity of collective agreements and bargaining. “This email is nothing less than an open invitation for unionized Bell clerical workers to act as scabs during a potential strike, an invitation we see as an offensive and unacceptable form of union busting,” the union wrote in the open letter.
Brock University labour studies professor Larry Savage said using replacement workers in federally regulated industries is only illegal if it’s designed to undermine workers’ representational capacity — which offers employers a large loophole, because they can use scabs and argue it’s to keep their business running.
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