Tag: bargaining

Licensed practical nurses and health care aides at Touchmark’s Wedgewood facility are voting on increases to wages, premiums, and flex spending accounts.

Employed at 5 Caffe Rosso locations, these workers unionized in April.

AgeCare employs over 300 workers at their Walden Heights location. Some of them have had no new contract for 2.5 years.

Over 7,000 Alberta workers have been waiting for over a year for a new contract and are tired of rollbacks, frozen wages, wage reversals, and unionbusting.

The 100 or so workers are employed at Agropur’s Edmonton milk processing plant, and their most recent collective agreement expired in May.

The workers employed by Venta Care Centre had asked for 16%.

These workers have been waiting for over 2 years for a new contract, and even tried informal mediation.

They fired one of their workers in an attempt at what the union described as delegitimizing collective bargaining and union activity.

The agreement contains wage increase, several paid leaves, health benefits, and various pay allowances.

Wages for these workers ended up 10% behind inflation over the course of their last contract.