It is with profound disappointment that we find it necessary to write to you about contract negotiations with the East Coast Credit Union.
Unifor represents 44 full and part-time workers at three credit union locations: Antigonish, New Glasgow and St. Andrews. They originally made up the Bergengren Credit Union which amalgamated in January 2016 with the East Coast Credit Union (ECCU).
TORONTO—The Unifor bargaining committee representing nearly 1,800 workers across five Ontario casinos has reached a tentative agreement with Great Canadian Casino.
“Unifor is a union for casino workers,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President. “Our members are pivotal to the profitability of this sector and have earned a fair contract.”
ANTIGONISH– East Coast Credit Union is acting more like a big bank in the callous way it is treating its loyal workers at three branches in Nova Scotia, says Unifor.
“How can this employer call itself your friendly community credit union with its race-to-the-bottom tactics against a mostly female workforce,” said Lana Payne, Atlantic Regional Director. “For years these workers took less pay in order to have a decent pension plan. It’s unacceptable that this employer has said it wants to eliminate it.”
TORONTO – Unifor National President Jerry Dias is available to comment on the U.S. Department of Commerce hearing on the Section 232 national security investigation of imports of automobiles and automotive parts.
GANDER – Unifor has won a landmark Employment Insurance (EI) victory for workers locked out since December 2016 by their employer, D-J Composites in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.
“This is a significant victory for our members both financially and in raising their spirits,” said Lana Payne, Atlantic Regional Director.“Eighty-two weeks on a picket line is tough and demoralizing. We have consistently told our members that we will leave no stone unturned in representing them and their rights.”
Thank you for the support you have shown the Goderich salt miners over these past few weeks. We are happy to announce that the members of Local 16-O ratified a new collective agreement on Monday, July 17 and will return to work tomorrow.
When the calls went out in their time of need, we were confident that Unifor members would step up, but could not have predicted the complete outpouring of support both from within and outside of our union.
Premier Ford’s scrapping of comprehensive sex education leaves children at risk, but together we can stop him and do the right thing for kids.
Before school starts in September and students are denied information about their own bodies and lives that could keep them safer and healthier we need to make our support for the 2015 curriculum known.
July 16, 2018 GODERICH – Members of Unifor Local 16-O have voted to accept a collective agreement with Compass Minerals, putting an end to a 12-week strike at the salt mine. “These members stood up to an American employer that was using scabs to undermine their power. I am so proud of the incredible solidarity we have seen in Goderich to send a clear message that scabs will not be tolerated by our union,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President.
TORONTO - In what they're calling a major test of Doug Ford's true commitment to "the little guy," the presidents of OPSEU and Unifor are demanding that the new premier crack down on "bad boss" doctors.
"Some doctors are bad bosses and that hurts the entire community," said OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. "Look at what's happening in Owen Sound, where the doctors are attacking members of their community with high-priced Toronto lawyers, high-priced security, and low-blows on social media.
Members of Unifor Local 16-O have voted to accept a collective agreement with Compass Minerals, putting an end to a 12-week strike at the salt mine.
“These members stood up to an American employer that was using scabs to undermine their power. I am so proud of the incredible solidarity we have seen in Goderich to send a clear message that scabs will not be tolerated by our union,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President.
TORONTO – During a news conference on Monday, July 16, at 9:30 a.m., the Presidents of OPSEU and Unifor will jointly call on Premier Ford to ensure that fee increases he negotiates with Ontario doctors help improve the low pay and terrible working conditions faced by front-line workers in many community health clinics.
GODERICH – Unifor and Compass Minerals returned to the bargaining table today and progress was made.
Both sides have agreed to extend talks and will return to the negotiating table at 9 a.m. tomorrow, Friday, July 13, 2018, in the interests of negotiating a collective agreement that meets the needs of all parties.
The Council of Unions Health Care Bargaining Committee have spent the past several weeks preparing for a mediation arbitration hearing set for the last week of July with mediator arbitrator William Kaplan, which will finalize a Healthcare Collective agreement for our membership working in the Acute Care sector with Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) and IWK.
