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VICE workers
sign fi rst
agreement
TORONTO — Canadian Me-
dia Guild (CMG) members at
VICE Canada ratified their first
collective agreement May 1,
with gains in salaries and ben-
efits, stronger equity provisions
and measures to protect editori-
al independence, said the union.
The deal was reached after
nine months of negotiations
and was agreed to on March 31.
In a vote, the three-year agree-
ment received the support of
94.7 per cent of voting members,
according to the union.
The collective agreement
builds in pay equity provisions,
provides general salary adjust-
ments retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017,
provides increased vacation,
doubles the number of paid sick
days, improves parental leave
benefits, strengthens protec-
tions for contract employees, and
defends the right to do outside
work, said CMG.
Employees will see immediate
salary increases ranging from
two per cent to up to 52.5 per
cent based on the new negoti-
ated salary grid, with an average
salary increase of nine per cent.
"We organized because we all
agreed that the long hours, cre-
ative passion, and professional
experience we were investing
here were not being recognized
fairly by management," said
Maggie McCaw, member of the
CMG negotiating committee.
As a part of the new agree-
ment, CMG and VICE will con-
tinue to do periodic assessments
to ensure pay equity is main-
tained, said the union.
Unifor, Loomis
reach deal
VANCOUVER — After months
of bargaining, a four-year tenta-
tive agreement between Unifor
and Loomis Express was signed
April 30.
"The bargaining committee
has secured a deal that includes
strong gains for Loomis Express
workers," said Todd Romanow,
Unifor national representative.
Unifor's members at Loomis
Express have been bargaining
since January 2017. In March,
union members voted 93 per
cent in favour of a strike if the
company couldn't negotiate a
fair agreement by early May, said
the union.
Job action would have af-
fected all Loomis customers in
eight provinces and potentially
TransForce, which owns Loomis
in Canada.
Workers will vote on the con-
tract during the next two weeks
at separate meetings in each
province, according to Unifor.
Workers
at Liberté
in Quebec
join UFCW
SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que.
— Workers at the Liberté yo-
gurt plant in Saint-Hyacinthe,
Que., are the newest members
of United Food and Commercial
Workers Canada (UFCW) Local
1991P after voting to joining the
union April 18.
Quebec's labour tribunal cer-
tified Local 1991P to represent
the 190 plant employees at Lib-
erté Saint-Hyacinthe, who work
as pasteurizers, operators, gen-
eral assistants, electromechani-
cal technicians and instrumen-
tation technicians, according to
UFCW.
Belonging to the Yoplait dairy
products company, the Liberté
plant produces Yop drinkable
yogurts, as well as Liberté and
Yoplait-branded products.
Photo:
Gonzalo
Fuentes
(Reuters)
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