Injunction bars Yellowknife workers from impeding access to city sites
YELLOWKNIFE — Unionized workers with the City of Yellowknife were still on picket lines Wednesday after bargaining teams failed to reach a deal on a new collective agreement and a court injunction restricted their strike action.
Justice Andrew Mahar of the Northwest Territories Supreme Court granted an order Tuesday that prevents Union of Northern Workers members from obstructing access to sites where the city operates for 10 days.
That includes the public pool, curling club, solid waste facility, multiplex, field house and city hall.
The order prevents more than six people from picketing at those locations and says any delay to entering those sites should only be to convey information and cannot last more than 10 minutes.