85% of the workers who participated in the strike vote voted in favour of striking, should it become necessary during negotiations.
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Edmonton Teamsters file for strike vote
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Lethbridge meat plant wants to hire 20 TFWs
The company claims they need the temporary foreign workers because of a national labour shortage, but the union representing workers say the shortage is self-inflicted because of low wages.
And that’s on top of wage adjustments of between 1% and 3%.
In a meeting of Lethbridge City Council last month, the mayor and all 8 members of city council unanimously approved a new 4-year contract for the workers employed at the The City of Lethbridge Water Treatment Plant. Their previous contract is set to expire at the end of this month. The workers, which belong to […]
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U of L workers get 2.75% wage increase
But it comes at a cost: 3 years of wage freezes. That makes 5 years of wage freezes over a 7-year period.
If approved, this will make 5 years of wage freezes over the last 6 years.
Workers voted 76% in favour of the new agreement, after being without an agreement for over 6 months.
The workers had voted 96% and 94% in favour of striking during two strike votes held earlier this year, after being 2 years with no contract.
The workers have been without a contract for 3 years.
Nursing workers employed by Carewest have been without a contract for almost 2.5 years, and the employer is proposing 2 years of wage freezes, after 3 years of freezes in the last contract.