MONTREAL – After joining the Steelworkers in June 2019, the 250 workers at Nortek Air Solutions factory in Montreal who manufacture ventilation units have secured their first collective agreement. The agreement, reached through first-contract arbitration, improves working conditions and provides significant wage increases and adjustments with the creation of a wage grid. Two-thirds of the […]
TORONTO – A new report from Blue Green Canada, Buy Clean: How Public Construction Dollars Can Create Jobs and Cut Pollution, says Canadian governments should shift their infrastructure spending to lower-carbon options to support Canadian industries and workers. When governments use their public infrastructure dollars to prioritize environmentally sustainable, low-carbon construction materials, they’re participating in […]
BURNABY, B.C. – The disappointing cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline delivered another major blow for workers at Canadian steel plants who are already struggling with layoffs and very few orders on the books. “Layoffs and plant closures seem to be the only orders on the books for many Canadian steel plants,” said Stephen Hunt, […]
SEPT-ÎLES – A tentative agreement was reached this morning between the negotiating committee of United Steelworkers (Syndicat des Métallos) Local 6254 and the Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire (SFP Pointe-Noire) on a first collective agreement since the company’s creation in 2016. Steelworkers Local 6254 members will be presented will details of the tentative agreement […]
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