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(LifeSiteNews) –– A Canadian federal arbitrator has ruled in favor of a VIA Rail locomotive engineer who was fired for not getting the COVID shots as a condition of employment, saying the government-owned passenger rail line did not have “sufficient cause” to terminate him.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Graham Clarke, who was the case arbitrator, wrote that “VIA did not have just and sufficient cause” to fire Louison Tessier, who worked as a VIA engineer for 19 years.
Noted Clarke, VIA Rail of its “own initiative” decided to add “disciplinary consequences for non-vaccinated employees.”
This, said Clarke, meant that VIA Rail breached the Canada Labour Code over Tessier’s COVID jab status.
Tessier was fired on January 24, 2022, however, through the help of his union, Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, he was successful in fighting back against his termination.
According to the Teamsters contact, no employee could be fired without a “fair and impartial hearing.”
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