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A four year struggle for justice ended in December when the Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Board ordered the re-hiring of 25 Hibernia oil platform workers laid off since a union organizing drive in 2000.
The board also ordered the company to pay the workers one year's back pay. The monetary order is worth between $1.5 and $2.5 million.
The workers' struggle began during a union certification bid in February 2000. At the time, the board ruled the layoffs were contrary to legislation but the company appealed an order of reinstatement and won their case before the provincial Supreme Court.
CEP continued the fight to the Appeal Court, which, last fall, reversed the Supreme Court decision and ordered the labour board to reconsider the case.
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