{"id":83,"date":"2006-04-30T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-04-30T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T22:08:38","slug":"duty-of-fair-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Duty of Fair Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees and unions will often find themselves at loggerheads on whether to run a grievance through to arbitration. The union has a duty to look after its members and will evaluate a case to determine whether it should proceed. The union will often rely on a third party such as a lawyer to provide an opinion on the merit of the case. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/05\/13\/2005bcsc1366.htm\"><em>CUPE Local 561 v. B.C. Labour Relations Board et al<\/em><\/a>, 2005 BCSC 1366, reviews a union&#8217;s resort to such an opinion and concludes that a union must be careful not to, and may not, delegate the decision on whether to run with the case.<\/p>\n<p>It &#8216;s not often that the BC Courts review these matters and the comments in the case are worth reading on that basis alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees and unions will often find themselves at loggerheads on whether to run a grievance through to arbitration. The union has a duty to look after its members and will evaluate a case to determine whether it should proceed. The union will often rely on a third party such as a lawyer to provide an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}