
In a decision dated July 23, the Canada Industrial Relations Board has given final approval to an application by the Metro Cable TV Maintenance and Service Employees’ Association to expand its existing bargaining unit for Rogers technicians in Ontario to include additional or renamed job positions at several locations.
Now included in the bargaining unit description are full-time fibre technicians, construction technicians and fibre/construction technicians working at or from Rogers’s Richmond Hill locations at 234 and 244 Newkirk Road, in addition to several other locations including 853, 855 and 857 York Mills Road and 10 Dyas Road in Toronto, 3330 McNicoll Avenue in Scarborough, and 3573 Wolfedale Road in Mississauga.
In addition, several names of job classifications have been changed for technicians covered by the bargaining unit description employed at not only the locations listed above but also at 7810 Keele Street in Vaughan, 11 Greensboro Drive in Etobicoke, and 141 and 143 Hester Street in Hamilton.
Some of those new job classifications include work order control coordinator, connected home technician, service/install technician, senior service/install technician, maintenance technician, dispatch, NTMC analyst, FSC analyst, platform technician, head end technician, and material handler.