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June 16, 2014
Ex-UAW president
calls for global
co-operation
Globalization the only option for
North American unions: King
By Liz Foster
KEy plAyErs in the labour movement are calling for new strate-
gies against governments and global corporations. Bob King, however,
thinks unions just need a bigger playing field.
In his recent farewell address, the retiring United Auto Workers
(UAW) president called on the union to become a global player in order
to compete with international corporations.
"The UAW cannot simply be a national union and fight global corpo-
rations," King told delegates at the union's 36th Constitutional Conven-
tion on June 2. "Our global solidarity with unions around the world is
critical to building power."
As a U.S.-based union, the UAW can only represent U.S. workers, but
ENERGY
Chevron Canada
Burnaby, B.C.
(150 plant and maintenance employees) and Unifor Local 61
renewal agreement: Effective
Feb. 1, 2013, to Jan. 31, 2016.
Signed on Jan. 13, 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Feb. 1, 2014: 3.5%
Effective Feb. 1, 2015: 3.7%
Calculated by CLR
shift premium: Effective
Feb. 1, 2014, $2.96 per hour
(up from $2.86) for all hours
B.C. school strike
A bitter battle in the west has pitted
teachers against the government. In
the first step to consensus, support
staff reach a tentative
agreement.
ArBitrAtion
AwArds
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Sawmill employee short-sighted about safety glasses pg. 6
Kingsway Transport - Province-wide, Ontario pg. 3
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo - Wood Buffalo, Alta. pg. 4
Corporation of the City of Cranbrook - Cranbrook, B.C. pg. 4
Carleton University - Ottawa, Ont. pg. 5
Whose job is it anyway?
An AllEgAtion from the
union representing city work-
ers in Kitimat, B.C., charging
that work was taken away from
bargaining unit members, was
thrown out by an arbitrator.
Jonathan Aiken, a plant mainte-
nance and repair person special-
izing in the city's water system,
filed a grievance alongside Unifor
Local 2300.
Back in March 2013, two non-
bargaining unit supervisors per-
formed the duties Aiken would
have performed had he been
available.
Whereas Unifor argued the
work should have been given to
Aiken, the District of Kitimat
countered that these particular
ColleCtive
Agreements
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Mark
Blinch
(Reuters)
"Globalization is not going away," said Unifor's research director Bill
Murnighan. "It is only deepening and widening and as such, trade
unions need to do the same."
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
see Long > pg. 7
pg. 2
