The arbitrator (MacDowell) dismissed the grievance filed by local 58 on behalf of the Head Technician at the Panasonic Theatre, Wade Sheedy. The grievance dealt with two issues: (i) whether
An arbitrator determined that under the applicable collective agreement stagehands called in for an opera changeover who stayed (after a lunch break) to also do a television broadcast “pre-rig” did
A group of transportation employees performed work starting at 2:00am on the sixth day and the employer refused to pay them their sixth day premium, arguing that the work they
An arbitrator interpreted a houseperson’s guarantee of hours in a stagehand collective agreement to require the employer to provide the houseperson the minimum of hours per week over the minimum
The employer grieved that the local had improperly manipulated the hiring hall mechanism in order to generate premium pay for the “permanent employees” who regularly worked for the employer on
The issue raised by the grievance was whether the employer violated the collective agreement by failing to pay the double time rate for time worked by employees at both theatres
Appeal of a lower court decision which held that the arbitrator’s decision respecting holiday was patently unreasonable. The Court upheld the lower court’s decision and remitted the matter to the
The grievance raised two main issues: (i) whether technicians working at the IMAX theatres were “projectionists” and thus covered by the collective agreement; and (ii) what should be the rate
The local grieved that employees should have received holiday pay for Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s during a temporary production shutdown between December 20, 1997 and January 4, 1998.
Grievance over whether employees of the local received proper payment of wages with respect to the production of Beauty and the Beast, playing at the Princess of Wales Theatre in
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