Labour Tribunal orders Queen Elizabeth to stop obstructing union [Video]

The Administrative Labour Tribunal has ordered the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel to cease interfering with and undermining the union’s role.

The Tribunal partially granted a request for an interim order filed by the hotel workers’ union, affiliated with the CSN.

The union had also filed a complaint regarding several communications made directly by the employer to unionized employees, arguing that these communications undermined the union’s role and credibility with its members.

The Tribunal acknowledged that “several communications use negative qualifiers such as unreasonable, inflexible, intransigent, and negative impact.”

The employer argued before the Tribunal that its statements fell under its freedom of expression and were intended to respond to the union’s “often false publications” and to “correct falsehoods spread by the union.”

However, the Tribunal observed that some of the employer’s messages “directly attack the union’s credibility” and that certain statements “appear to appeal to employees’ emotions, while others resemble …