Acts and Regulations

I-4 - Industrial Relations Act

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Freedom from coercion, voting rights, offences re collective agreement
6(1)No employer, employers’ organization, trade union, council of trade unions, or other person shall use coercion or intimidation of any kind with a view to encouraging or discouraging membership in, or activity in or for, an employers’ organization.
6(2)No trade union, council of trade unions, employer, employers’ organization, or other person shall use coercion or intimidation of any kind with a view to encouraging or discouraging membership in, or activity in or for, a trade union or council of trade unions.
6(3)No employer, employers’ organization, trade union, council of trade unions, or other person shall seek to influence the manner in which an employee may vote, in any vote taken under this Act, by intimidation or coercion or by giving, or offering to give, money or any other valuable consideration.
6(4)No employers’ organization, trade union, council of trade unions, or other person shall seek to influence the manner in which an employer may vote, in any vote taken under this Act, by intimidation or coercion.
6(5)No employer or employers’ organization, and no person acting on behalf of an employer or employers’ organization, shall, so long as a trade union or council of trade unions continues to be entitled to represent the employees in a bargaining unit, bargain with or enter into a collective agreement with any person or another trade union or council of trade unions on behalf of, or designed or intended to be binding upon, the employees in the bargaining unit or any of them, and, if entered into, any such agreement is void.
6(6)No trade union or council of trade unions, and no person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, shall, so long as another trade or council of trade unions continues to be entitled to represent the employees in a bargaining unit, bargain with or enter into a collective agreement with an employer or employers’ organization on behalf of, or designed or intended to be binding upon, the employees in the bargaining unit or any of them, and, if entered into, any such agreement is void.
1971, c.9, s.7