OTTAWA—The federal government’s revised climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy, commits to many important steps to cut pollution and create jobs, but leaves out details about labour market dislocation.
Unifor wrote to the Prime Minister to emphasize the need for an orderly vaccination program, effectively coordinated with provincial and municipal health authorities, and administered by public bodies rather than private pharmacies or clinics.
Negotiations to renew the collective agreement between Unifor Local 414 and the Sobeys grocery store in Kincardine, Ontario are approaching a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. Sunday December 13, 2020.
Negotiations with the Company continued this week in Ottawa via Zoom. The Union and the Company have exchanged proposals and have started to work through the non-monetary demands. We have engaged the Mobilization Committee, to distribute an educational document regarding the process of Federal Bargaining. We will continue to keep you updated as the process unfolds.
WINDSOR – Health care workers represented by Unifor Local 2458 will escalate actions by holding a rally outside of Fairfield Park long term care home to demand a fair and equitable collective.
It’s 2020. Seventy-two years after the United Nations General assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We should be celebrating all the accomplishments in Human Rights.
Last week, Unifor filed a Notice of Dispute with the Federal Minister of Labour requesting the assistance of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) in our collective bargaining with VIA Rail on the renewal of Collective Agreements 1 and 2, which covers 1,700 members of Unifor Council 4000.
On Monday, December 7, the Minister appointed a conciliation officer to the Council 4000 / VIA Rail bargaining table. The chart below outlines the schedule that will be followed through the conciliation process up to the setting of a bargaining deadline:
Health care workers represented by Unifor Local 2458 will escalate actions by holding a rally outside of Fairfield Park long term care home to demand a fair and equitable collective.
Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence) is legislation that comes in to effect on January 1st, 2021 and will affect all workplaces that fall under the Federal jurisdiction under the Canada Labour Code, Part 2.
Nothing gets my blood boiling like seeing a worker cross another worker’s picket line to steal their job – and I’ve seen it way too often.
Across most of this country and in every single federally regulated sector, there is virtually nothing to stop it happening – and that needs to change.
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