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Strike averted
at Toronto
Marriott
TORONTO — A tentative
agreement was reached on Sept.
8 between Unifor, Local 7575
and the Toronto Marriott Bloor
Yorkville, averting a strike.
"We are pleased that the bar-
gaining committee has reached
an agreement they will recom-
mend to members which, if
ratified, will avoid any inconve-
nience to hotel guests and the
public during the Toronto In-
ternational Film Festival," said
Jerry Dias, Unifor's national
president.
Details of the tentative agree-
ment will not be released un-
til they are presented to union
members at a ratification meet-
ing, said the union.
Unifor represents 168 work-
ers in all areas of the hotel in-
cluding guest services, the
lounge, banquets, kitchen,
laundry, room attendants and
maintenance, according to the
union.
Owen Sound,
Ont., clinic
workers ratify
agreement
OWEN SOUND, Ont. — On-
tario Public Service Employees
Union (OPSEU) members at
the Owen Sound Family Health
Organization in Owen Sound,
Ont., ratified a collective agree-
ment on Sept. 5.
"These workers, who are
almost all women, have won
an astounding victory against
overwhelming odds," said War-
ren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU
president. The workers went on
strike on May 22.
The OPSEU Local 276 mem-
bers went on strike because
the doctors who own the clinic
were offering the employees
low wage increases after four
years of frozen wages, accord-
ing to OPSEU.
But in the new four-year
agreement, the doctors ad-
dressed many of those concerns,
providing substantial wage in-
creases, no pension claw-backs,
and significantly improved job
security, said OPSEU.
Halifax
crossing
guards ratify
new contract
HALIFAX — Crossing guards
voted 99 per cent in favour of
a new collective agreement on
Sept. 4 with their employer, the
Halifax Regional Municipality.
The crossing guards are mem-
bers of the Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE), Lo-
cal 4814.
The agreement was reached
through conciliation on Aug. 21,
2018, said the union.
Local 4814 members will re-
ceive a 9.8 per cent wage increase
over the term of the three-year
agreement. Other improve-
ments include job security and
extended use of vacation days,
said CUPE.
Auction
workers
join UFCW
TORONTO — Warehouse
workers at AuctionMaxx, an on-
line auction house based in To-
ronto, voted to join the United
Food and Commercial Workers
union (UFCW), Local 1006A on
Sept. 1.
AuctionMaxx employees ini-
tially reached out to the union
for greater job security, schedule
protection and improved wages,
said UFCW.
The workers work in the on-
line company's logistics centre,
which stores a wide variety of
AuctionMaxx items.
Striking public employees march against a tax reform proposed by the government in San Jose, Costa Rica,
on Sept. 10.
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