The Sudbury Star is the City of Greater Sudbury’s daily newspaper.
LABOUR RELATIONS: Board decision favours union
Vale is still not commenting on the decision Friday by the Ontario Labour Relations Board to direct the matter of eight discharged employees to just cause arbitration.
Vale spokeswoman Angie Robson said Monday at 4 p.m. she had nothing to add to a statement issued Saturday at The Sudbury Star’s request.
Robson said then that Vale is continuing to “review and assess the decision of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. “The OLRB has made no ruling on the correctness or legitimacy of the discharges,” said Robson.
The purpose of the hearings into United Steelworkers unfair bargaining complaint against Vale was not to determine if the firing of eight Steelworkers during their year-long strike against the mining company were justified.