Unifor No
Frills grocery
workers reach
agreement
TORONTO — Unifor Local
414 members reached a tenta-
tive agreement with No Frills
grocery stores.
The deal affects 1,265 work-
ers at 19 locations across On-
tario.
Details of the deal will be
made public once the agree-
ment is ratified by members,
the union said.
Unifor is Canada's largest
union in the private sector, rep-
resenting more than 305,000
workers.
More than 20,000 of the
union's members work in su-
permarkets, pharmacies, ap-
pliance stores and other retail
shops across the country.
Transit unions
appeal law
prohibiting
strikes
TORONTO — The 2011 On-
tario law forbidding strikes or
lockouts at the Toronto Transit
Commission (TTC) is being
appealed as unconstitutional.
The Amalgamated Transit
Union (ATU) Local 113 sub-
mitted the appeal to the Ontar-
io Superior Court of Justice on
Oct. 26. The union represents
more than 10,000 operating
and maintenance staff with the
TTC.
The Canadian Union of Pub-
lic Employees (CUPE) joined to
the action of behalf of its Local
2, which represents TTC elec-
trical, signaling and instrumen-
tation technicians, and its Local
5089, which represents TTC
fare inspectors and special con-
stables.
Bill 150, enacted on March
31, 2011, designated the TTC
as an essential service and pro-
vided for binding arbitration if
the union and employer were
unable to arrive at a freely ne-
gotiated collective agreement.
"The right to bargain with
your employer about the value
of your skill, knowledge and ef-
fort is meaningless if you can-
not legally withhold your la-
bour as a part of the bargaining
process," said ATU Local 113
president Bob Kinnear.
"Our challenge to Bill 150 is
of much larger consequence
than our right to bargain for
our work. It is also a challenge
against the power of govern-
ment to limit any of our Char-
ter rights without compelling
reasons that would stand up in a
neutral court of law."
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