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Toronto
Marriott hotel
workers ratify
agreement
TORONTO — Unifor, Local
7575 members at the Toronto
Marriott Bloor Yorkville voted
on Sept. 13 to ratify a new col-
lective agreement, with signifi-
cant economic gains and break-
throughs in job security and
workload protections.
"We believe this is the first
time in Ontario that a collective
agreement has fully protected
room attendants' work from
sham 'green' programs at a Mar-
riott property," said Jerry Dias,
Unifor national president.
The new agreement guaran-
tees that room attendants will no
longer lose hours because of so-
called "green" programs. Even-
tually all financial incentives for
guests to decline housekeeping
services will be phased out, said
the union.
The union estimates the new
language will save as many as
28 shifts per week, according to
Unifor.
Wages will increase by 10.6 per
cent (compounded) over three
years with some classifications
receiving additional increases.
Banquet gratuity income will
jump an additional four per cent,
effective immediately, according
to the union.
Pension contributions will
increase by 27 per cent over the
term of the collective agree-
ment. Benefits for dependants of
part-time workers will expand to
include dental coverage, eye ex-
ams, prescription drugs and life
insurance, said the union.
"We are absolutely thrilled,"
said Roberto Perez, a long-time
Marriott houseperson and
member of the bargaining com-
mittee.
"We bargained right up to a
strike deadline, and the strength
and unity of my co-workers
made it possible for us to set a
new standard in the hotel indus-
try."
Unifor was successful at en-
shrining a Women's Advocate
position in the collective agree-
ment, as well as securing a
mechanism for protecting work-
ers from harassment by guests
and introducing alert devices
(panic buttons) for room atten-
dants, said the union.
Tentative
agreement
for Hardisty
care workers
EDMONTON — A tentative
agreement for employees at
Hardisty Care Centre in Ed-
monton was reached on Sept.
10, after a final round of nego-
tiations in August, according to
the Alberta Union of Provincial
Employees (AUPE).
If ratified, the proposed agree-
ment will come into effect on
April 1, 2018, and expire on
March 31, 2020, said the union.
The tentative agreement in-
cludes salary increases in both
years with 1.5-per-cent increas-
es (retro-pay based on all hours)
effective April 1, 2018, and two-
per-cent increases effective
April 1, 2019, said AUPE.
Kingston,
Ont., retail
workers
join UFCW
KINGSTON, Ont. — Retail
workers at the Canada Comput-
ers and Electronics location in
Kingston, Ont., are the newest
members of United Food and
Commercial Workers Canada
union (UFCW), Local 102 af-
ter voting on Sept. 9 to join the
union.
The major issues for the
Kingston employees were wag-
es, respect, a greater say in their
working conditions and job se-
curity, said the union.
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