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2 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2019 Strike over after contract reached at Vopak MONTREAL — Unifor mem- bers at Vopak voted 80 per cent in favour of their new collective agreement on Oct. 2, putting an end to more than three months of strike action. "We were able to obtain sig- nificant improvements in our working conditions, bringing them into line with those in the industry," says Renaud Gagné, Unifor's Quebec director. Highlights of the agreement include a salary increase from $27.55 to $35.20 an hour for em- ployees with three or more years of service, which represents 85 per cent of the workforce. More junior employees will join their coworkers on a salary scale spread over three years, says the union. The deal is a four-year con- tract, with more than two years already elapsed. It runs from June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2021, says the union. A signing bonus of $12,000 for full-time employees was ob- tained, while part-time and pro- bationary employees will receive $4,000, says Unifor. Other gains include double time for overtime starting July 1, 2020, a contribution of $0.05 per hour for the paid education leave program and an increase to five per cent (from four per cent) for the employer's contribution to the pension plan upon signing, rising to 6.5 per cent as of July 1, 2020, says the union. Vopak Terminals of Eastern Canada employs about 30 Uni- for members working at the company's oil terminals in Mon- treal and Quebec City. B.C. paramedics, dispatchers ratify deal VICTORIA — B.C.'s 4,500 ambulance paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers voted to ratify a new three-year collective agreement on Sept. 30, signing off on a tentative agreement reached on July 19 between the Health Employers Association of B.C. (HEABC) and the Ambulance Paramed- ics and Ambulance Dispatchers Bargaining Association of B.C. (APADBA). The new agreement is the first collectively bargained contract for B.C. ambulance paramedics and dispatchers since 2004, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). It contains general wage in- creases of two per cent each year, hundreds of new regular paramedic jobs across the prov- ince and several new health and safety initiatives, says the union. It also ensures compliance with the new requirements of the Employment Standards Act by the end of March 2022. The new agreement will be applied retroactively from April 1, with many changes scheduled to be implemented immediately or in the coming months, says the union. "This new collective agree- ment introduces perhaps the most significant changes our workplace has ever seen in a single period of bargaining," says Cameron Eby, CUPE 873 (Am- bulance Paramedics of B.C.) president. Over the course of seven months at the bargaining table, the parties reached agreement on more than 80 proposals, says Eby, a number that represents progress in modernizing the collective agreement. Dearborn Ford workers in Kamloops, B.C. sign deal KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Unifor 10-B members working at Dear- born Ford in Kamloops, B.C. voted to ratify a new three-year collective agreement on Oct. 7 that includes wage increases and a pension enhancement. After a turbulent start to bar- gaining that included a bad-faith bargaining complaint from Uni- for, the 43 members of 10-B rati- fied a new collective agreement with 2.5-per-cent wage increase per year, improved overtime provisions, stronger sick leave languages, work retention gains and a 0.25-per-cent pension in- crease, says the union. Unifor is Canada's largest union in the private sector, rep- resenting 315,000 workers. 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