The Ontario Labour Relations Board determined a jurisdictional dispute between the Carpenters and Labourers unions regarding the assignment of tending work associated with the erection and dismantling of scaffolding by Doug Chalmers Construction Limited.
The Board held that general tending work is prima facie within the jurisdiction of construction labourers, while other tending work falls to carpenters.
The Board ordered that general tending work must be assigned to labourers only if there is sufficient work to occupy a labourer for a minimum of four hours during a shift; otherwise, the employer may assign it at its discretion.
