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Machinists
ink new deal
with WestCan
Industries
LANGLEY, B.C. — Members
of International Association
of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers (IAM), Local 692 have
ratified a new collective agree-
ment with WestCan Industries
of Langley, B.C.
"We have always had over-
time paid at one and a half times
the standard rate but we have
just negotiated two times the
standard rate for overtime and
the minimum wage rate for
students is now $15 per hour
which supports our campaign
for a minimum wage of $15 per
hour," said Dale Gentile, IAM
District Lodge 250 business
representative.
The three-year agreement
provides salary increases of
three per cent in each year of
the new deal, according to the
union.
Other agreement highlights
include:
• removal of the two-tier wage
scale system from the collec-
tive agreement
• improved dental coverage
• long-term disability coverage
improvements
• apprenticeship rates improved
• shipper classification wage
scale improved
• improved pension plan contri-
butions
The 30 members of IAM
manufacture, repair, rebuild
and overhaul industrial pumps.
Vast Auto
workers in
Brampton,
Ont., ratify
agreement
BRAMPTON, Ont., — Work-
ers at Vast Auto in Brampton,
Ont., have ratified a collective
agreement.
"This was a big victory be-
cause of the action taken by
workers and the capacity of our
union to apply pressure on the
employer," said Paulo Ribeiro,
Unifor staff representative.
The 29 members of Unifor
Local 1285, went on strike on
Feb. 3 after the employer walked
away from the bargaining table,
said the union.
The three-year deal — rati-
fied on Feb. 15 — will see start-
ing wages rise immediately
from $12.70 per hour to $14 per
hour, according to the union.
By the end of the contract,
the starting wage will be $15 per
hour, with a top rate of $17.16
per hour.
The new collective agree-
ment comes after more than a
week of other Unifor members
picketing with the Vast Auto
strikers in Brampton, and a rally
held Feb. 10 at the employer's
Scarborough, Ont., location.
Drivers,
detailers
at Robert Q
Airbus join
Teamsters
LONDON, Ont. — About 75
workers at Robert Q Airbus
in London, Ont., voted to join
Teamsters Local 879.
The new members include
drivers who shuttle travellers
to the Detroit and Toronto Air-
ports, and detailers who clean
and detail the buses.
According to the union, mak-
ing the workplace fairer and
more structured was especially
important to the staff at Robert
Q Airbus.
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LABOUR LENS
Joe Cicala (L) and Mike Evans, representatives of the International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers, embrace after workers rejected union representation at the Boeing South Carolina
plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 15.
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