Article  - Hot Air Social Club

The company offers and encourages membership in the Hot Air Social Club. The club promotes favourable employee relations through social functions planned by employees. Funding of these functions is through a $1 monthly contribution by each employee, which is matched by the company on an equal basis. Membership will be offered upon commencement of employment.

The Issues for You to Decide

In the light of the course material and your own provincial labour relations legislation, answer the following questions:

1. Does a strike or lockout end a collective agreement?

2. If so, does an employer have the ability to unilaterally impose terms and conditions of employment once strike or lockout action ends the collective agreement?

3. If an employer unilaterally implements such terms, are employees required to work under those terms, without their individual, or the union's collective, approval?

4. Can the employer exclude from the terms it unilaterally imposes all terms that are related to the union?

5. Do the employer's actions in this case constitute bargaining in bad faith?