Board issues cease and desist direction against trade union for calling unlawful selective strike.
The applicant employer bargaining agency applied for relief under section 123 of the Labour Relations Act, alleging that the respondent trade union and its business manager called an unlawful strike.
The strike occurred in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector of the construction industry.
The Board found that the respondents violated section 134a(1) of the Act by engaging in a selective strike when not all affiliated bargaining agents had called or authorized a strike.
The Board issued a cease and desist direction against the respondents.
Mechanical Contractors Association Ontario v. United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Local 463, 1980 CanLII 799