They are hoping for improvements to wages, scheduling, and working conditions.
WestJet workers begin contract negotiations
They are hoping for improvements to wages, scheduling, and working conditions.
They have been waiting for over two years for a new collective agreement, ever since their last one expired in June 2024.
If successful, it would affect about 2 dozen workers.
If successful, it would affect over 50 workers.
Unlike the 12% over 4 years that public sector workers have been getting lately, this raise will be over just 3 years.
Unfortunately, Gateway Casinos never gave them wage increases during their last two collective agreements, so this is an inadequate raise.
They had been waiting for 5 years for a new contract, and when they finally get one, it has 2 years of wage freezes. They had wage freezes in their previous 2 contracts.
The roughly 800 workers are employed at the company’s Contact Centre in Calgary.
The certificates include long-term care workers, community service workers, and welding inspectors.
We also had the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada and only the third highest median hourly wage.