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2022 BTS BARGAINING PROPOSAL form – Deadline November 24 2021

Bargaining Proposal Form

Sisters and Brothers,

Our Craft BTS/Unifor Collective Agreement expires May 2022. Please download and fill out the proposal form and return them no later than November 24 2021 as the local must submit all proposals by December 1 2021. It is important that every member fill out the form.

The PDF form is a fillable form that may be submitted electronically by email or fax.

Please download the BTS Bargaining proposal form and return it to the Local Executive
Email

barg.cba.proposals.2022@gmail.com

Or

Fax to:

416.538.1997

 

Form provided by Unifor National

FILLABLE BTS BARGAINING PROPOSAL SURVEY

 

In Solidarity,

Lee, Sanjay, Brian, Chris

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Anti-scab legislation now!

Anti-scab legislation now!

Unifor is calling for anti-scab legislation in every jurisdiction in Canada. Read the research paper and sign the petition.

Unifor is calling on all elected officials at the provincial, territorial and federal level to enact anti-scab legislation, in accordance with a set of basic principles based, in part, in existing legislation in Quebec, BC, and international jurisdictions.

  • Prohibit employers from using replacement workers for the duration of any legal strike or lockout
  • Include significant financial penalties for employers who defy the legislation
  • Allow limited use of temporary workers, only to undertake essential maintenance work to protect the integrity and safety of the workplace

Add your voice here…

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Ontario needs universal child care

Add your Voice

Ontario has yet to sign. We are demanding Premier Doug Ford and his ministers step up and sign up for this national child care plan.

Universal, affordable, high quality child care is finally within reach thanks to a new federal plan, but Ontario’s Conservatives are dragging their feet and have not signed onto the federal plan.

Parents need safe, high quality child care that meets their family’s needs. Child care workers need secure, good jobs where they can provide excellent care. And children deserve quality care.

The federal government’s national child care plan, laid out in the 2021 federal budget this past April, pledged roughly $30 billion over five years to help build a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care.

Public investments in child care pay for themselves. Women are the frontlines of the workforce, but especially during COVID-19, we saw them being pushed out and relegated to stay at home because of a lack of child care.

The plan would translate into making child care more affordable, including $10-a-day child care in regulated spaces for children under six years old by 2026, additional spaces in high-quality, not-for-profit centres and fees for regulated spaces cut in half by the end of 2022, while supporting wages and working conditions of child care workers.

But, in order for this plan to work, provinces need to get on board.

Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Yukon, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba have already adopted it, bringing families in these provinces closer to the promise of learning services and affordable, accessible and quality early child care.

Ontario needs to sign on to the federal government’s child care plan immediately.

Add your voice today and tell your local MPP, Premier Doug Ford and Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce that Ontario needs universal child care.

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Unifor’s Statement on Persons Day

Each October 18, Canada marks Persons Day. On this day, the Privy Council declared some women to be persons under the Constitution they gained the right to be appointed to public office including the Senate of Canada.

This right was not open to most women based on class and race. Reviewing our legislatures and the Senate today, not a lot has changed.

Women continue to make up fewer than 32 per cent of lawmakers. Women of colour, Indigenous women and working-class women make up a small fraction of that number.

The importance of having a diversity within our lawmakers can’t be overstated. The pandemic has shone a light on pre-existing gender and racial inequality and has increasingly widened the gap. Inequality has especially deepened for women and non-binary people facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.

Having women in the legislature has undoubtedly influenced supportive laws passed during the pandemic. There has even been some gains in the area of child care, sexual harassment laws and pay equity.

We’ve seen the vital importance of women’s leadership in all elected spaces, including unions, throughout this pandemic. Work needs to be done to bring down the barriers to women’s access to these positions and the challenges that drive them out.

Women who have stood for office or been elected continue to face gender-based harassment and violence. Indigenous and Black parliamentarians have spoken out about the racist and sexist treatment they’ve been subjected to and they, along with other women, have made the difficult decision to leave the legislature.

Persons Day can’t just be about achieving the right for women to be appointed or elected to public office. It must also be about the wider campaign for gender justice. And we can win this campaign only through collective action.

Unifor members’ activism at the bargaining table, at the ballot box and in the streets hasn’t been easy but fighting back always makes a difference.  We have stepped into a leadership role during the pandemic recognizing that women, particularly racialized women, have been disproportionately bearing the brunt. We’ve been pressing for workers’ rights, mobilizing to elect progressive governments, and standing firm for safety at work and at home. Our work to Build Back Better and its companion bargaining agenda includes an equity lens and lays a roadmap to a better world.

Persons Day may have started with the push for the right of white, upper class women to gain what white, upper class men had. It has since become a day to examine the structures that existed then and continue to exist. These structures must be reformed and dismantled if we are ever to achieve true equity for all genders and people of all classes. Collectively we will continue that fight.

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Leadec workers make solid gains in new contract

Unifor members of Local 200 and 707 at Leadec Corp. ratified a new three-year agreement by 80 per cent.

“These negotiations presented a unique set of challenges in an industry that is undergoing fundamental change,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “Nonetheless, the bargaining committee members were determined to make important gains for our members and were successful in doing so.”

Approximately 150 custodial and facilities management workers at Ford auto plants in Oakville and Windsor are covered by the new agreement. The contract provides union members with a $2,000 signing bonus as well as a 2% raise in each year of the agreement, seven cent inflation protection, and an increase in shift premiums. Total improvements in wages amount to more than a nine percent wage increase over the life of the agreement when including weekend and overtime premiums and RRSP contributions.

“We set out to deliver a strong agreement for our members,” said Fuad Hassan, Unifor Local 707 Leadec Chairperson.  “What we delivered was a solid agreement that not only made important economic gains for our members but also made equally important equity improvements as well.”

The agreement will introduce additional equity positions for both a Women’s Advocate and a Racial Justice Advocate to support union members.

The agreement also improves the employee benefits plan by providing medical cannabis coverage of $500 per person per year.

“On behalf of our bargaining committee, I want to thank the membership for the support and solidarity in these negotiations,” said Connor Fleming, Unifor Local 200 Leadec Chairperson. “This agreement would not have been possible without a strong show of support from our members.”