The union applied for the settlement of a first collective agreement by arbitration.
The parties agreed on some provisions of the union's proposed standard form collective agreement, but disputed several articles including geographic scope, payment of wages, sub-contracting, and an industrial fund.
The Board held that the geographic scope could not be expanded beyond the Board's geographic area #17 without the employer's consent, as economic sanctions cannot be used to expand bargaining rights.
However, the Board ordered the inclusion of the union's standard form provisions for the remaining disputed articles, finding no reason to grant the employer special treatment or a competitive advantage over other contractors bound by the standard agreement.
