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Students'
Association
workers ratify
agreement
WINNIPEG — Workers at the
University of Winnipeg Stu-
dents' Association, Local 153
ratified a new five-year collec-
tive agreement April 11.
Highlights include wage
increases in each year of the
agreement, as well as improve-
ments to parental and family
responsibility leave and dental
benefits, said the union.
The union will now meet
with the employer to sign the
contract for distribution to
members.
Workers at
Vancouver's
First United
Church sign
fi rst contract
VANCOUVER — Workers at
First United Church in Van-
couver's Downtown Eastside
ratified their first collective
agreement April 11.
In the first year of the con-
tract, workers will receive wage
increases ranging from three
per cent to 11 per cent, with
some classifications achieving
greater than 30 per cent.
All members will receive a
subsequent 2.5 per cent wage
hike on Aug. 1, 2017, followed
by another two per cent in-
crease on Aug. 1, 2018, said the
union.
"During bargaining, our
higher-paid members were
willing to forego a higher wage
increase to ensure that their
lesser-paid coworkers came up
to $15 an hour or greater," said
Kim Balmer, United Food and
Commercial Workers Canada
(UFCW) Local 1518 executive
assistant.
The new contract also fea-
tures more full-time positions
as well as enabling workers to
move to higher-paid classifica-
tions, according to UFCW.
Workers at First United pro-
vide advocacy, housing, meals,
counselling services and pro-
grams. The church provides
support to those facing home-
lessness, mental health and ad-
diction issues.
PSAC
members
ratify deals
with Treasury
Board
OTTAWA — Members of the
Public Service Alliance of Can-
ada (PSAC) working for the
Treasury Board accepted new
collective agreements April 13
that contain no concessions
for four bargaining units rep-
resenting more than 100,000
workers.
The majority of members in
the program and administrative,
technical services, operational
services, and education and li-
brary science bargaining units
voted in favour of the agree-
ments, said the union.
The four-year collective agree-
ments provide for across-the-
board annual wage increases of
1.25 per cent for each year, plus
other wage adjustments made
for specific bargaining units and
classifications, said PSAC.
PSAC achieved:
• The parties will develop rec-
ommendations on measures to
improve employee wellness.
• Better family leave, including
provisions for extended family,
have also been negotiated.
Photo:
Benoit
Tessier
(Reuters)
LABOUR LENS
A makeshift cof n is seen as Whirlpool Amiens factory union employees demonstrate outside the company
headquarters at the nancial and business district of La Defense, west of Paris, on April 18. Message reads:
"Whirlpool killed 286 jobs in Amiens."
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