Unifor is taking legal action against the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary for its actions at the picket line outside Weston Bakery in Mount Pearl.
Outside the Dominion location at Quidi Vidi Lake, lead negotiator Chris Macdonald said the RNC intimidated and threatened members with arrest for violations under the Highway Traffic Act. Even though, he says, they were off the road and in a driveway.
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, he says the RNC broke up their picket line. Macdonald states that the union’s right to peacefully picket was violated.
Lawyer Kyle Rees of O’Dea Earle, who represents the union, says they will be filing a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.
They will claim their charter rights were breached when their picket line was broken up—and that they suffered damages when that happened.
The statement of claim will be filed this coming Thursday.
