FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2000
MEDIA ADVISORY
Hearing into unfair
labour practices – Salvation Army Community Living
Toronto, Ontario: The Ontario Labour Relations Board will begin a
hearing tomorrow into unfair labour practices filed by the Ontario
Public Service Employees Union against the Governing Council of the
Salvation Army in Canada and Salvation Army Community Living, London,
Ontario.
The union has been on strike at Salvation Army Community Living
since December 14, 1999.
The union is charging that the employer and a private security firm
retained by the employer, have engaged in unlawful conduct by:
- conducting surreptitious audio and
video surveillance of the picketers;
- intercepting private communications
between persons on the picket line;
- intimidating and harassing picketers
through verbal abuse and sexual harassment; and
- physically striking picketers by
running into them with their vehicles
These charges will be heard by the
Ontario Labour Relations Board in a hearing commencing at 9:30 a.m. on
Tuesday, February 22 in its Board Room – 2nd Floor, 505
University Avenue.
For further information, please
contact:
Carol Warner (cell) (519) 852-2749
