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Swissport
IAM members
ratify contract
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Swissport
workers at the St. John's airport
ratified a new deal June 20 with
an 84 per cent acceptance, said
the union.
The group of International
Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers (IAM)
members was the last of a
Canada-wide bargaining ef-
fort by Swissport that began in
Vancouver and worked its way
east resulting in negotiations
beginning several months after
the expiration date of the old
agreement of Aug. 31, 2016, ac-
cording to the union.
With the ratification, mem-
bers will receive retroactive
payments for all hours worked
including overtime, stat holi-
days and premiums back to
Sept. 1, 2016.
They will receive wage in-
creases for the remainder of
the new agreement beginning
Sept. 1, 2017. The lead hand
premium provides an addition-
al $3 per hour, said the IAM.
"In between, we rejected
lump-sum payments in lieu of
retro pay and refused wage of-
fers that were insulting," said
Ken Russell, IAM transporta-
tion district lodge 140 general
chairperson.
"These members have expe-
rienced the cutthroat effects of
their employer being bought
and sold from Hudson General
to Globe Ground North Amer-
ica to Penauille Servisair to
Servisair and now Swissport,"
said Russell.
Freedom
Mobile's
fi rst contract
at conciliation
WINDSOR, Ont. — Negotia-
tions for a first collective agree-
ment between the United Steel-
workers (USW) and Freedom
Mobile in Windsor, Ont., en-
tered the conciliation phase, said
the union.
A federal labour conciliation
officer has convened meet-
ings between the company and
the union in an effort to help
reach a settlement, according
to USW.
Freedom Mobile — previ-
ously known as Wind Mobile —
was purchased in 2015 by Shaw
Communications.
The 185 customer-care em-
ployees at Freedom Mobile's
Windsor call centre joined the
USW in January and bargaining
began in late March.
"Shaw recently had its best
quarterly subscriber perfor-
mance in five years. And its
$1.3-billion revenue for the sec-
ond quarter was up by over 13
per cent from the previous year.
Windsor call-centre workers
helped deliver that success –
they work hard and deserve a fair
deal," said Ken Neumann, USW
national director.
Four Villages
health workers
join OPSEU
TORONTO — Staff at the Four
Villages Community Health
Centre in Toronto voted in
favour of becoming members
of the Ontario Public Service
Employees Union (OPSEU).
In a vote the week of June 12,
58 staff members at the centre's
two locations in west-end To-
ronto elected to join OPSEU af-
ter a short organizing drive, said
the union.
Four Villages is a non-profit
primary health care facility that
was first established in 1991.
Photo:
Costas
Baltas
(Reuters)
LABOUR LENS
Municipal workers scuf e with police of cers at the main entrance of the parliament building during a rally
against job layoffs affecting their sector in Athens, on June 22.
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