If your management team asks you to perform the work of a colleague on strike, we encourage you to raise concerns that the work is outside of your job description and/or bargaining unit work, preferably in writing.  You may also inquire about whether any essential services agreement reached with the striking bargaining agent may assist the Employer in assigning essential work. If a manager insists that you perform newly assigned work, you should comply in conformity with the ”work now, grieve later” principle.

If you are asked to perform duties outside of your job description and/or the LP bargaining unit description, please report this to a member of the AJC Governing Council or fill out the intake form on our website so that we can document these occurrences and consider ways of ensuring that the Employer respects labour laws, the collective agreement, the parameters of what constitutes LP bargaining unit work, and any essential services agreement the Employer would have reached with the striking bargaining agent.