GTAA, Unifor
reach collective
bargaining
agreement
TORONTO — The Greater
Toronto Airports Author-
ity (GTAA) and Unifor ratified
a new collective bargaining
agreement with its 1,050 em-
ployees at Toronto Pearson In-
ternational Airport.
The three-year agreement
will be in effect from Aug. 1,
2016, to July 31, 2019.
The deal calls for 2.5 per cent
annual increase in salary each
year starting in Aug. 1, 2016,
2017 and 2018, said the union,
as well as better group insurance
and pensions, improvements
to job postings, severance pay-
outs, better defind overtime
policies and upgraded bullying
and harassment policies.
Serving 41 million passen-
gers in 2015, Toronto Pearson
is Canada's largest airport and
North America's second-largest
international passenger airport,
as measured by the total num-
ber of annual passengers.
OPSSU
returns to table
with OPSEU
TORONTO — The Ontario
Public Service Staff Union
(OPSSU) and Ontario Public
Service Employees Union (OP-
SEU) returned to the bargaining
table with a conciliator.
If a deal is not reached, OP-
SEU staff could be on strike or
locked out as early as the end of
August.
OPSSU voted 68 per cent to
reject a tentative agreement and
authorize strike action if neces-
sary.
The union has not voted
down an agreement in 20 years.
"Our members gave the bar-
gaining team a strong man-
date to return to the table. We
expect that the employer will
come prepared to bargain a fair
deal," said OPSSU president Pati
Habermann.
The current collective agree-
ment expired June 30, 2016.
OPSSU represents workers at
OPSEU's head office in Toronto
and at 19 regional offices across
Ontario. Staff provide services
to more than 130,000 members.
Youth centre
workers in
Nelson, B.C.,
join CUPE
Nelson, B.C. — Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE) lo-
cal 339 recently welcomed 16
youth centre workers to its ranks.
The employees — who work for
the City of Nelson, B.C. — voted
July 22 to join, according to the
union.
"(The workers) provide an
indispensable service to youth
in our community and we look
forward to working with the City
of Nelson on their behalf, " said
president Mike Stefiuk.
CUPE 339 also represents 80
public workers and 14 library
workers.
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