The arbitrator allowed a policy grievance to proceed because its challenge to unilateral changes in negotiated health benefits went beyond two individual claims, so the insurer's role in denying coverage didn't resolve the employer's collective agreement obligations. Evidence of later benefit coordination changes could be considered as part of the continuing policy dispute, provided the union supplied full particulars, but whether the changes breached the agreement remained undecided.
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Sanofi Pasteur v Unifor, Local 1701, 2026 CanLII 95554 (ON LA)
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Held. The arbitrator allowed a policy grievance to proceed because its challenge to unilateral changes in negotiated health benefits went beyond two individual claims, so the insurer's role in denying coverage didn't resolve the employer's collective…
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