Acts and Regulations

I-4 - Industrial Relations Act

Section 5
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Interference, intimidation, discrimination
5(1)No trade union or council of trade unions, and no person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, shall
(a) participate in, or interfere with, the formation, selection or administration of an employers’ organization or the representation of an employer by an employers’ organization or contribute financial or other support to an employers’ organization, or
(b) impose any condition in a collective agreement or recognition agreement seeking to restrain or deprive an employer from exercising his rights under this Act to become or to refrain from becoming or to cease to be a member of an employers’ organization.
5(2)No trade union or council of trade unions, and no person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, shall seek by intimidation, by coercion, by the threat of dismissal or loss of employment, by the imposition of a pecuniary or other penalty, by undue influence, or by any other means, to compel or to induce an employee or other person to become or to refrain from becoming, or to cease to be, a member or officer of a trade union or council of trade unions, or to deprive an employee or other person of his rights under this Act.
5(3)No trade union or council of trade unions, and no person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, shall
(a) discriminate against a person in regard to employment or a term or condition of employment, or
(b) intimidate or coerce or impose a pecuniary or other penalty on a person,
because of a belief that he may testify in a proceeding under this Act or because he has made or is about to make a disclosure that may be required of him in a proceeding under this Act or because he has made an application or filed a complaint under this Act or because he has participated or is about to participate in a proceeding under this Act.
5(4)Nothing in this section or in this Act shall be deemed to deprive a trade union, or a council of trade unions, or a person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, of freedom to express its or his views so long as it or he does not exercise that freedom in a manner that is coercive, intimidating, threatening or intended to unduly influence any person.
1971, c.9, s.6; 1985, c.51, s.2