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Tentative deal
at Ontario
Northland
railway
NORTH BAY, Ont. — Unifor,
Local 103 reached a tentative
agreement on Feb. 18 with the
Ontario Northland Transpor-
tation Commission (ONTC) in
North Bay, Ont., to renew all five
union agreements that expired
on Dec. 31.
Unifor represents more than
350 workers at Ontario North-
land who work in a variety of
classifications including cleri-
cal, on-board passenger train
service, yard office, stores,
freight sheds, hotel staff and
mechanical shop-craft work-
ers.
Ontario Northland is a pro-
vincial Crown agency of the gov-
ernment of Ontario.
The new agreements are sub-
ject to a ratification vote, said the
union.
Vancouver
Art Gallery
workers reach
agreement
VANCOUVER — Striking
workers at the Vancouver Art
Gallery voted in favour of a
mediated settlement on Feb. 11,
effectively ending their week-
long labour action.
"Our members successfully
fought back against a number
of concessions, and won several
key provisions that will improve
the working conditions and
compensation of gallery work-
ers today, and for years to come,"
said Warren Williams, Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) 15 president.
Workers walked off the job
on Feb. 5 over wages and gallery
managers' attempts to eliminate
long-standing scheduling rights,
said the union.
Through mediation, the par-
ties were able to agree on a four-
year agreement that excludes the
gallery's proposed concession on
scheduling, provides retroactive
wage increases of 1.5 per cent in
each of 2017 and 2018, and in-
cludes future wage adjustments
of 1.75 per cent in 2019 and two
per cent in 2020, said CUPE.
"The cumulative effect of
these wage increases will see
gallery workers' paycheques in-
crease by 4.75 per cent in 2019,
and a further two per cent next
year," said Williams.
"We are pleased the gallery
agreed to retroactivity for the
2017 and 2018 increases and re-
moved their remaining conces-
sion," said Williams.
CUPE 15 represents more
than 7,000 municipal, commu-
nity social service, education
and not-for-profit workers in
Vancouver, including more than
190 unionized workers at the
Vancouver Art Gallery.
Edgewater
Gardens
care workers
join ONA
DUNNVILLE, Ont. — Regis-
tered nurses at the Edgewater
Gardens Long-Term Care Home
in Dunnville, Ont., voted to join
the Ontario Nurses' Association
(ONA) on Feb. 13.
The nurses from the home,
are concerned about heavy
workloads that they believe
may be impacting resident care,
according to the ONA.
The employees say there have
been high levels of manage-
ment and staff turnover, said the
union.
ONA represents more than
65,000 registered nurses and
health-care professionals, as
well as 18,000 nursing student
affiliates, providing care in hos-
pitals, long-term care facilities,
public health, the community,
clinics and industry.
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