Reassignments violate seniority rights

The employer transferred several workers from the jobs they had bid for into a different department for an extended period. Management claimed the collective agreement did not protect assignments. The arbitrator found that it did, given that the transfers were not of short duration.

Faced with increasingly frequent temporary reassignments away from their home section into the Parcels section, four postal workers grieved. The union said that the reassignments violated the workers’ seniority rights.

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