Mississauga, ON – Members of IAMAW Local Lodge 1922 have unanimously ratified a new collective agreement with Volvo/Mack Canada. The three-year agreement provides for wage increases of 2.5 per cent in each year with the wage increase in the first year retroactive to September 30, 2010. Other agreement high lights include : • Increased shift premiums • Increased Vision care benefits • Increased Safety Shoe allowance • Increased physiotherapy benefits •
Toronto, ON – Members of IAMAW Local Lodge 1922 have ratified a new collective agreement with Ecojustice. The two-year agreement provides for wage increases of 2 per cent in the first year and a possible 2 per cent in the second year dependent upon the Consumer Price Index or CPI. Other agreement highlights include an additional floater holiday, improved holiday pay language for part time employees and improved contract language.
Toronto, ON – Today the Machinists Union opened bargaining with Air Canada and Aveos at the Sheraton Centre Downtown in Toronto. This bargaining is unprecedented in that, for the first time ever, the Canadian General Vice-President has participated from the very beginning of negotiations. “We are looking for gains in this entire process,” said Chuck Atkinson, IAM District 140 National President and Directing General Chairperson. “That is our message and
Montréal, QC – IAMAW Local Lodge 1660 has new members thanks to unprecedented solidarity within the Québec Federation of Labour. In an organizing campaign lasting more than a year, 51 mechanics, machinists, millwrights, electricians and general labourers employed by the Montréal Transportation Agency, are now members of the Machinists. “When we started this campaign we asked the QFL for organizing help,” explained IAMAW District Lodge 11 Directing Business Representative David
Edmonton, AB – There are 16 additional happy faces at Waterous Power Systems and they belong to the newest members of IAMAW Local Lodge 1722. Parts and service office personnel have joined the existing collective agreement, which previously covered only mechanics, welders, labourers, electricians and unlicensed employees. “I think these workers finally realized what they had been missing by not being a member of the IAM, they hadn’t seen a
Toronto, ON – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and its Canadian General Vice President Dave Ritchie today, filed an application in the Ontario Superior Court against Air Canada. The suit charges that Air Canada has breached the Air Canada Public Participation Act by not maintaining operational and aircraft overhaul centres in Winnipeg, Montréal and Mississauga. The application also contends that pursuant to the Canadian Business Corporations Act,
Montréal, QC – Members of IAMAW Local Lodge 1660 have ratified a new collective agreement with Plastic Decorators Incorporated by a margin of 90 per cent. The three-year agreement provides for wage increases of 1.5 per cent in the first year retroactive to September 23, 2010, 3.5 per cent in the second year and 2.5 per cent in the third year. Other agreement highlights include : • Addition of two sick
North Bay, ON – Employees at the Empire Living Centre have become the newest members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. “Our presence in the ‘Gateway City’ has been growing in the last year with the addition of workers at Ontario Patient Transfer and Seymour Doors,” explained IAMAW District Lodge 78 Organizer Scott Jackson. “With the tireless assistance of Ernie Giroux from IAMAW Local Lodge 2412, these
Toronto, ON – Members of IAMAW Local Lodge 235 have ratified a new collective agreement with CBS Outdoor Signs. The five-year agreement provides wage increases for hourly workers of a $750.00 signing bonus in the first year, $ .50 per hour in the second and third years and $ .55 per hour in the fourth and five year respectively. Piecework employees receive a $750.00 signing bonus in the first year
Montréal, QC – Members of IAMAW Local Lodge 2727 have ratified a new collective agreement with Kraft Canada by a margin of 70 per cent. The four –year agreement provides wage increases of $ .75 per hour in the first year retroactive to April 1, 2010, and $ .70 per hour in each of the three remaining years of the agreement. Other agreement highlights include : • Modification for granting vacations
