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Kal Tire workers ratify 1-year extension FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Kal Tire employees ratified a one-year deal on April 28 for a contract extension with 90.6 per cent in favour of the deal. Terms and conditions of the contract remain the same. "As the pandemic worsened and the global price of oil col- lapsed, we were faced with sig- nificant external challenges. Even the prospect of meeting for mediation had changed due to the pandemic," says Matt Barn- able, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) district 14 busi- ness representative. Airport screeners get PPE after complaint LANGLEY, B.C. — Airport screeners at Abbotsford, Kam- loops and Whitehorse airports in British Columbia continue to be on the job during COVID-19, and now they are now doing so with the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). Transport Canada responded to a complaint on May 1 by or- dering that all airport screen- ers across the entire country be LABOUR BRIEFS provided with PPE, and further issued an order requiring all pas- sengers to wear face masks as well, says the United Steelwork- ers (USW), Local 2009. It's a decision that also ben- efits USW District 3 workers, employed as airport screeners by Garda at Yellowknife and Thompson, Man. airports, as well as screeners in other dis- tricts, says USW. "We are proud to represent workers who are now referred to as essential. But essential doesn't mean they are sacrificial," says Al Bieksa, president of USW, Local 2009. OPSEU education workers ratify deal TORONTO – The Ontario Council of Education Work- ers (OCEW), which includes the Ontario Public Service Em- ployees Union (OPSEU), voted unanimously to ratify a new col- lective agreement on May 5. "Education bargaining has been very difficult across the board, and the COVID-19 emer- gency hasn't helped," says War- ren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU president. "But exhaustive ne- gotiations have paid off, and our members can focus on doing what they do best: Creating wel- coming learning environments that allow our students to grow and flourish in every aspect of their development." The OCEW is a bargain- ing council representing about 7,000 educational professionals working as teaching assistants, educational assistants, behav- ioural teaching assistants, des- ignated early childhood educa- tors, clerical staff, IT and many others at public and Catholic school boards. They are divided among seven unions, including OPSEU and its affiliate the Edu- cational Resource Facilitators of Peel (ERFP), says the union. The three-year agreement, retroactive to Sept. 1, 2019, in- cludes wage increases of one per cent in each year, as well as sig- nificant improvements to ben- efits, says OPSEU. Back pay approved for former AHS employees EDMONTON — Former Al- berta Union of Provincial Em- ployees (AUPE) members work- ing in Alberta Health Services General Support Services and who applied for retroactive pay will receive it on May 20. An independent arbitrator ruled that former Alberta Health Services (AHS) general support services (GSS) employees who ended employment between April 1, 2019 and Jan. 30, 2020 would be eligible for retroactive pay, says the union. This pay comes as a result of an arbitration decision made earlier this year which awarded AHS GSS workers a one-per- cent wage increase, says AUPE.

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