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'No board'
sought for
Avenue II:
Union
THUNDER BAY, Ont. —
About 100 employees at Avenue
II Community Program Services
in Thunder Bay, Ont., could be
locked out as early as Sept. 27
following a 'no board' request,
said the Ontario Public Service
Employees Union (OPSEU).
The workers — who support
individuals with developmental
disabilities — have been without
a contract since March 31, 2016.
The employer had short-cir-
cuited the process by requesting
a "no board" report, which will
set the clock ticking down to a
possible labour disruption, ac-
cording to Silvana Cacciatore,
president of OPSEU Local 738.
"On August 24, after just five
hours with the conciliator, the
employer presented us with
their final offer and a request for
a no-board," said Cacciatore.
Workers are resisting a pilot
project that would impact mem-
bers' schedules. Further, the
employer has demanded that all
outstanding grievances be with-
drawn, said the union.
Last June, union members
voted 96 per cent in favour of
giving their team a mandate to
call a strike, if necessary, accord-
ing to OPSEU.
Teamsters, CP
reach tentative
agreement
OTTAWA — The Team-
sters Canada Rail Conference
(TCRC) — which represents
the running-trade employees
at Canadian Pacific (CP) — has
agreed to a tentative one-year
agreement with the company,
said the union.
The agreement includes some
improvements to the working
conditions for the membership.
The agreement further provides
an opportunity to address issues
with scheduling, fatigue and the
current backlog of disputes be-
tween the parties, according to
Teamsters.
Further details will not be re-
leased until the members have
had a chance to review the docu-
ment, said the union.
The tentative agreement af-
fects about 3,200 locomotive en-
gineers, conductors, trainmen
and yardmen at CP across the
country.
Workers at
Buckerfi eld's
ratify new
agreement
DUNCAN, B.C. — Employees
working at Buckerfield's in Dun-
can, B.C., ratified a new collec-
tive agreement on Sept. 6.
Founded in 1919, Bucker-
field's is a retailer that sells a vari-
ety of home and garden, animal,
pet and farm items. The Dun-
can location is the chain's only
unionized store, said the United
Food and Commercial Workers
Canada (UFCW).
The new two-year deal con-
tains a living wage scale. Wages
are determined by a regional
calculation that assesses the
amount of money a family of
four needs to earn to meet their
expenses. It includes costs such
as rent and groceries, as well as
items like extended health care
and two weeks' savings for each
adult, said the union.
"It's extraordinary for an em-
ployer to research the living
wage for their community and
voluntarily rename the wage
scale in the collective agreement
as the 'living wage schedule'," said
Kim Balmer, UFCW 1518 direc-
tor.
Photo:
Jean-Paul
Pelissier
(Reuters)
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