New Brunswick, Canada: “The City of Moncton thinks that showing up drunk at work toting a loaded, sawed-off shotgun in search of the boss is a firing offence. The city’s union disagrees. Seven days after George Pavlovsky was fired from his job as a senior tree cutter with the City of Moncton, the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 51 filed a grievance to his employer challenging the dismissal.” Mr. Pavlovsky is unavailable for immediate service since he is currently serving a two-year prison term over the incident, but he “is hoping to get his job back when he is released.” (Shawna Richer, “Gun-toting, drunk Moncton employee grieves firing”, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 28)
Canada: What it takes to get fired from a public service job
New Brunswick, Canada: “The City of Moncton thinks that showing up drunk at work toting a loaded, sawed-off shotgun in search of the boss is a firing offence. The city’s union disagrees. Seven days after George Pavlovsky was fired from his job as a senior tree cutter with the City of Moncton, the Canadian Union […]
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Oh, Canada!
I was in Toronto when the trash workers went on strike…lovely. But, until reading aboot the power of public employees unions in Moncton (where my “friend”, Jonathan, lived this fall), did I realize just how out-of-contol things were. “The City…