Can a collective agreement be negotiated in bad faith bargaining?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from Service Employees International Union (West) v Saskatchewan Association Of Health Organizations, 2014 CanLII 17405 (SK LRB):

In SGEU v. Saskatchewan & SAHO, supra, the Board went on to make the following conclusions following an extensive survey of jurisprudence: In summary, the cases demonstrate that while Boards generally will not delve into the reasonableness of the bargaining positions taken by either party during collective bargaining, Boards may find that a specific proposal does constitute bad faith bargaining if: (1) the proposal contains some illegality; (2) the proposal in itself or in conjunction with other conduct indicates a subjective unwillingness to conclude a collective agreement; and (3) the proposal is or should be known to go against bargaining standards in the industry and to be generally unacceptable to either include or refuse to include in a collective agreement, i.e. it has the effect of blocking the negotiation of a collective agreement.

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