Grievance allowed in default; employer ordered to pay damages and costs for collective agreement violations.
The applicant union referred a grievance to arbitration under section 133 of the Labour Relations Act.
The responding party employer failed to attend the hearing.
The Board proceeded in the employer's absence, declared the employer bound to the Provincial Collective Agreement, found it violated the agreement, and ordered it to pay $4,430.45 in damages and $749.00 in costs.
Universal Workers Union, L.I.U.N.A., Local 183 v. Finishing Touch Concrete & Excavating Inc., 2001 CanLII 9627