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D-J
Composites
bargaining
bad-faith:
N.L. board
GANDER, N.L. — The New-
foundland and Labrador Labour
Relations Board ruled on May 3
that U.S.-owned D-J Compos-
ites violated section 75 of the La-
bour Relations Act by engaging
in bad-faith bargaining with its
Gander, N.L., employees.
"This is an exceptionally im-
portant decision that reinforces
what Unifor has been saying all
along — that this employer was
not interested in reaching a fair
contract with its employees,"
said Lana Payne, Unifor Atlan-
tic regional director. "D-J Com-
posites introduced proposals
that no reasonable union would
agree to. In our nion's opinion,
these proposals were designed
to lengthen the lockout."
D-J Composites has been or-
dered to remove all proposals
that attempt to eliminate senior-
ity-based rights for Unifor Local
597 members and is further or-
dered to deliver a new offer —
without the offending propos-
als — to the union within seven
days, according to Unifor.
The 32 aerospace workers
have been locked out by the em-
ployer since Dec. 19, 2016.
Tentative
deal between
CUPE, CHS
TORONTO — The Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE), Local 2073 — repre-
senting 227 workers at the Ca-
nadian Hearing Society (CHS)
— reached a tentative settlement
May 8.
The tentative deal ended a
nine-week-old strike that started
March 6. Mediated talks were fa-
cilitated by third-party mediator
John Stout over four and a half
days in Toronto, said the union.
No details of the settlement
will be released until the mem-
bership has had the opportunity
to vote, which is set for May 12.
The earliest possible date work-
ers could be back on the job is
May 15, according to CUPE.
"I'm pleased to say we now
have a resolution," said Stacey
Connor, president of Local 2073.
Nipawin,
Sask., school
caretakers
join CUPE
NIPAWIN, Sask. — Public
school caretakers in Nipawin,
Sask., voted to unionize with the
Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees (CUPE) on May 2.
The Saskatchewan Labour
Relations Board issued a cer-
tification order that brings a
dozen more workers into CUPE
Local 4875, which represents
more than 300 education sup-
port workers in the North East
School Division.
Since last fall — when the
provincial government com-
missioned a report on education
restructuring — standard con-
cerns around job security, wages
and benefits have been height-
ened for workers in K-12 educa-
tion, said the union.
Such concerns only increased
following the release of the
2017 - 2018 provincial budget,
which proposed $22 million
in cuts to K-12 education, a 3.5
per cent wage rollback for pub-
lic sector workers followed by a
wage freeze and changes to The
Education Act in budget Bill
63, which would dramatically
reduce the decision-making au-
thority of local school boards,
said CUPE.
Photo:
Khaled
Abdullah
(Reuters)
LABOUR LENS
Women walk past a pile of rubbish bags on a street on May 9 during a strike by garbage collectors
demanding delayed salaries in Sanaa, Yemen.
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