The applicant employers' organization filed an unfair labour practice complaint alleging that the responding trade unions bargained in bad faith by pressing to impasse a demand that the applicant's members contribute to an industry fund operated by a rival employers' organization.
The Board found that the trade unions' insistence on this provision as a condition to end a strike interfered with the administration of the applicant and provided improper support to the rival organization, contrary to section 71 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.
The Board concluded that pressing this demand to impasse constituted a failure to bargain in good faith under section 17.
