(Montreal) In an exceptional gesture, the Administrative Labor Tribunal orders an employer to sign the collective agreement and gives him two days to do so.

The Court also finds that Delastek, an aerospace equipment manufacturing company, breached its obligation to bargain in good faith and sought to interfere with the activities of the Unifor union.

The management of Delastek had refused to sign the collective agreement, after having nevertheless accepted a hypothesis of settlement submitted to the two parties by the mediator-conciliator of the Ministry of Labour.

After ensuring that the employer accepted this proposed settlement, the union submitted it to its members, recommending it to them. And the union members had endorsed it.

The employer had even started to pay employees according to the new wage rates.

But now, after the fact, Delastek management no longer wanted Appendix F, which deals with the training of employees outside the factory. She refused to sign the document unless the appendix was removed.

The Tribunal ruled that by refusing to sign the agreement, after having given its word, the employer interfered with the activities of Unifor and breached its obligation to bargain in good faith.

He orders him to sign the collective agreement already signed by Unifor representatives “within two days of notification of this decision”.