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Unifor testifi es
against
workplace
surveillance
OTTAWA — Unifor testified in
the Senate on Feb. 13 against the
federal government's proposed
workplace surveillance legisla-
tion.
"Video-recording workers
on the job is a surveillance tool,
pure and simple," said Jerry Dias,
Unifor president.
"We've campaigned against
this over-reach from employers
from the start. Managerial video
surveillance cannot become the
government standard," said Dias.
Bill C-49, Transportation
Modernization Act, proposes to
require all railway operators to
install and use locomotive voice
and video recorders (LVVRs).
Unifor said the government has
provided little evidence to dem-
onstrate how LVVRs will be an
improvement over "black box"
data recorders already on trains.
Unifor says Bill C-49 marks a
significant intrusion on the pri-
vacy of employees in the railway
industry in exchange for a lim-
ited benefit to rail safety.
"If open-ended surveillance of
the kind proposed in Bill C-49 is
allowed to become law, it sets a
dangerous precedent for work-
ers in other sectors," said the
union.
Strike ends
at Motor City
Chrysler in
Windsor, Ont.
WINDSOR, Ont. — Unifor, Lo-
cal 195 members ratified a new
contract on Feb. 15 with Motor
City Chrysler in Windsor, Ont.,
bringing a two-week strike to an
end.
Contract negotiations broke
off on Jan. 16, after Motor City
Chrysler repeatedly refused to
remove concessions from its
offer. Members began strike
action on Jan. 31 and a tenta-
tive contract was reached after
two weeks of picketing, said the
union.
Unifor, Local 195 represents
two bargaining units consisting
of office sales, finance and cleri-
cal workers, shop technicians
and parts workers.
The strike mandate was au-
thorized with a vote of 94 per
cent by the office unit and 100
per cent by the shop unit, ac-
cording to Unifor.
Deal ratifi ed
at St. omas
Health Centre
in Edmonton
EDMONTON — St. Thomas
Health Care members voted
on Feb. 14 in favour of ratifying
a tentative agreement reached
with the employer last month.
The agreement includes a
wage increase of one per cent in
the second year. Those increases
led to the establishment of the
new wage grid with initial place-
ment on the grid based on the
wage rate employees had as of
October 2017, said the Alberta
Union of Public Employees
(AUPE).
Each step forward on the grid
represents a 2.5 per cent increase
in an employee's wage rate.
All employees advance on
the grid when they have worked
1,957.5 hours, said AUPE.
Further highlights of the ten-
tative agreement include notice
of sub-contracting article, an al-
ternative dispute resolution pro-
cess, a $0.25 increase to all shift
and weekend premiums effec-
tive upon ratification and Boxing
Day added to named holidays,
said the union.
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