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.
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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 certificates include transit workers, long-term care workers, and office workers.
The 100 or so workers are employed at Agropur’s Edmonton milk processing plant, and their most recent collective agreement expired in May.
They terminated the employment of a worker who was pro-union and who sat on the contract negotiating team.
Bloom Limited Partnership has dragged out contract negotiations for over 4 years and has offered 3 years of wage freezes.
The workers employed by Venta Care Centre had asked for 16%.
If successful, it would apply to about 30 workers employed by Arch Services.
If successful, it would apply to about 200 workers.
These workers have been waiting for over 2 years for a new contract, and even tried informal mediation.
Dr. Sabine Graf has been told to either move back to Canada, which would lead to her child’s legs being amputated, or stay in Austria but lose her job with the university.