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September 22, 2014
MANUFACTURING
Agri-Marchée
Saint-Isidore, Que.
(20 plant and maintenance employees) and the
Centrale des Syndicats Déocratiques (CSD)
Renewal agreement: Effective
April 4, 2014, to April 30, 2018.
Signed on April 4, 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective May 1, 2014: 2%
Effective May 1, 2015: 2%
Effective May 1, 2016: 2%
Effective May 1, 2017: 2%
Young workers falling behind
Unifor and the Canadian Federation
of Students point to a group left out
of Canada's positive jobs data —
recent graduates and
youth workers.
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Teacher grieves suspension relating to sexual assault pg. 6
Fort Providence Housing Association — Nunavut pg. 3 City of Edmonton
— Alberta pg. 4 Government of Alberta — Alberta pg. 4 TV5 Quebec
Canada - Quebec pg. 4 Concordia University — Quebec pg. 5 Sysco
Calgary — Alberta pg. 5
Unifor awarded dues for
non-bargaining unit work
An eMployee at Toronto-
based vaccination supplier
Sanofi Pasteur was promoted to
a non-bargaining unit position,
but was required to perform the
duties of his previous job, for
which an arbitrator ruled he be
paid.
The employee, who was un-
named at the hearing, was pro-
moted from within the bargain-
ing unit to a non-bargaining unit
position. However, immediately
following the promotion, he was
ColleCtive
Agreements
ColleCtive
Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
Photo:
Greg
Locke
(Reuters)
Public service union leaders involved in Newfoundland and Labrador's pension plan
reform said outgoing premier Tom Marshall's calm and kind demeanour helped
broker the deal that will maintain employees' defined benefit pension plan.
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 2
see Unions > pg. 7
ex-n.l. premier brokers pension reform
Unions bolster new, fully-funded public sector retirement program
By Liz Foster
WIth leSS thAn two weeks before his retire-
ment, Newfoundland and Labrador's outgoing pre-
mier Tom Marshall announced a sweeping deal to re-
form the province's troubled Public Service Pension
Plan (PSPP).
To do so, Marshall — alongside now-former fi-
nance minister Charlene Johnson — collaborated
with five public sector unions, including the New-
foundland and Labrador Association of Public and
Private Employees (NAPE), the Newfoundland and
Labrador Nurses' Union, the Canadian Union of Pub-
lic Employees, the Association of Allied Health Pro-
fessionals, the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and the Newfoundland and Labrador Public
Sector Pensioners' Association.
Together, the parties crafted an agreement that is
expected to fully fund the pension plan — which cur-
rently has a shortfall of about $4 billion — in the next
30 years.
"It seemed like the government just kicked it down
