Canadian Labour Reporter

lAboUr brieFs 2 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2014 Unifor settles Bombardier strike with tentative deal THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Uni- for Local 1075 and Bombardier Transportation have reached a tentative deal on a new collective agreement, putting an end to a two-month strike. The two parties reached an agreement after more than eight weeks on strike. The announce- ment came after eight days of ne- gotiations over two weeks. The 900 members of Unifor Local 1075 went on strike on July 14. Bombardier issued a state- ment saying the company, "Hopes to see our valued em- ployees return to work as quick- ly as possible." Unifor employees at Bom- bardier build the new subway and streetcars for the Toronto Transit Commission, as well as cars for the GO Train commuter train service. Details of the new collective agreement will be presented to the membership for ratifica- tion, with a full discussion and debate to be held at that time. young workers trailing in jobs market: Unifor TORONTO — On the heels of last week's unemployment data, released by Statistics Canada, Unifor and the Canadian Fed- eration of Students said young workers are being left in the dust. The monthly jobs report in- dicated employment amongst young workers and students fell by a whopping 20,000 jobs, ac- cording to the statistical agency's Labour Force Survey for August. The timing should have yielded the opposite result, said Jerry Dias, Unifor's na- tional president. "Over the summer, the unem- ployment rate for young work- ers, aged 15 to 24, stayed stub- bornly high, as it has been since the recession. This is the very time that it should be easier for young people to find jobs — the jobs that they need to be able to go to school in September," Dias said, adding that, "Whatever recovery has happened entirely bypassed young people." According to the CFS, more than one in four workers is classified as underemployed, often working in a series of low- skilled, part-time or temporary jobs. By today's standard, one in every three young postsec- ondary graduates will transition from school into a low-skilled job, carrying with them an aver- age debt-load of $28,000. "A good job has never been harder to find, and students will take actions to change that," said Jessica McCormick, national chairperson for the CFS. "Grad- uating with record-high debt levels, this generation's students are further limited in career options. When more than half of all students have to borrow to finance their education, debt becomes the deciding factor for career options in an already pre- carious job market." Unifor, the CFS, Ryerson University's Centre for Labour Management Relations and the Canadian Centre for Policy Al- ternatives will host a national Good Jobs Summit in early Oc- tober — the discussion for which will focus on the state of the economy and creation of mean- ingful and sustainable employ- ment opportunities for young people in particular. An Air France staffer waits at a check-in desk. A week-long strike by pilots over the airline's cost-cutting measures saw six out of 10 fl ights cancelled on average per day. FoRMeRly ClV RepoRtS Serving labour relations professionals since 1956 www.labour-reporter.com published weekly by omson Reuters Canada ltd. Subscription rate: $595 per year Customer Service tel: (416) 609-3800 (Toronto) (800) 387-5164 (outside Toronto) Fax: (416) 298-5106 email: carswell.customerrelations@ thomsonreuters.com Website: www.carswell.com Director, Carswell Media Karen Lorimer publisher John Hobel - On leave Acting publisher/Managing editor Todd Humber news editor Sabrina Nanji | (416) 649-9348 sabrina.nanji@thomsonreuters.com news editor Liz Foster | (416) 298-5129 liz.foster@thomsonreuters.com Marketing Co-ordinator Travis Chan | (416) 609-5872 travis.chan@thomsonreuters.com © 2014 Carswell, a division of omson Reuters Canada Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the written permission of the publisher. e publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other professional advice. If legal or other expert assistanceis required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. e analysis contained herein represents the opinion of the authors and should in no way be construed as being either offi cial or unoffi cial policy of any governmental body. ISSN 0045-5113 Publications Registration 2089 Canadian Labour Reporter is part of the Canadian HR Reporter group of publications. Visit www.hrreporter.com for more information. Labour Reporter Canadian www.labourreporter.com Photo: Jean-Paul Pelissier (Reuters) lAboUr lens

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