Last week, the Alberta Labour Relations Board published their second new applications report for November 2025. In it was an application accusing an employer of unionbusting.
To be fair, the summary provided by the ALRB does not use the term unionbusting. Let me explain the situation, and you can decide if it sounds like unionbusting.
Back in June, Local 362 of the Teamsters filed the application on for union certification on behalf of workers employed by Hertz Canada Ltd at their Calgary International Airport location.
These workers have still not received a certificate form the ALRB, but part of the reason is that Hertz Canada keeps trying to interfere in the process.
For example, according to another application filed by Local 362 the next day, the employer had been holding one-on-one meetings with workers to try to find out which of them were involved with the unionization drive. Apparently, they’d ask the workers what they knew about the unionization campaign and who had signed in support of the application.
In their latest application, Local 362 once again allege that Hertz Canada is trying to determine who is involved in the unionization process, as well as get details on the unionization campaign itself.
However, what is new this time around is that Local 362 are accusing Hertz Canada of termination the employment of one of their workers—Zeeshan Hassan—for their involvement in union activities.
They claim that Hassan’s dismissal “compels employees from seeking union representation” by using “intimidation, threats, or implied threats”.
Local 362 is arguing in their application that Hertz Canada dismissing Hassan violates section 149 of Alberta’s Labour Relations Code.
No employer or employers’ organization and no person acting on behalf of an employer or employers’ organization shall refuse to employ or to continue to employ any person or discriminate against any person in regard to employment or any term or condition of employment because the person is a member of a trade union or an applicant for membership in a trade union, has testified or otherwise participated in or may testify or otherwise participate in a proceeding under this Act, or has exercised any right under this Act
and
No employer or employers’ organization and no person acting on behalf of an employer or employers’ organization shall seek by intimidation, dismissal, threat of dismissal, or any other kind of threat, by the imposition of a pecuniary or other penalty or by any other means, to compel an employee to refrain from becoming or to cease to be a member, officer or representative of a trade union
The ALRB has not yet scheduled a hearing for this application.
Since the ALRB does not archive their new applications reports, I have included a copy of last week’s report below for your convenience.
