Subject: Labour Relations Assignment - William Scott and Co. Ltd. Case

1. Summarize the key FACTS in point form

* Wm. Scott & Company Ltd, a poultry-processing company, is the employer * Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union is the griever * The union requested the Board to review an arbitration made under collective agreement between the company and member of union * The award is the dismissal of Margaret Martelli on September 4, 1975 * She called a newspaper and reported that employees were never asked to do overtime to keep up with the poultry meat that was backing up * She also mentioned that the company had many inefficiencies and mentioned the time women were wasting arguing everyday over irrelevant things as the use of a hose * The company deemed these reports were false and unfounded and Margaret knew that * Margaret was dismissed before this event, but was reinstated in April 1975 after an arbitration board substituted the dismissal with a year of suspension * The Arbitration Board found her comments to be unwarranted, and found she was justly dismissed and did not substitute the company’s decision as done before * The union appealed the decision to the BC Labour Relations Board * The Board denies application under section 108 * After the Board considered the facts involved in Margaret’s dismissal, it considered her suspension as a disciplinary action, where a second opportunity was given, but since the behavior did not change, dismissal was required * The decision of terminations was maintained

Wm. Scott & Company Ltd. and Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union, Local P-162 [1977] 1. CLRBR 1; BCLRB No.