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Solidarity to Save Oshawa GM

Jerry Dias

Members,

Yesterday was a challenging day, as GM reiterated its intention to stop production at the Oshawa Assembly Plant.

The company made this decision with full knowledge of the damaging effects that a closure will have on Oshawa, and on the wider community. They dismissed every recommendation that Unifor brought forward to fulfill the terms of the 2016 collective agreement.

Attached, you will find an update that was distributed on the shop floor in Oshawa earlier today, where members put their tools down last night to protest GM’s decision. Please post this update on your local union websites and distribute to your membership lists.

I am proud of these workers for taking a strong stance against corporate greed.

Join me in Windsor on Friday to rally in support of all workers affected by a closure of the Oshawa Assembly Plant. Together we must send a clear message: GM, you have gone too far – do the right thing and reverse your decision! If you sell here, you must build here.

A high level of participation from all local unions will help show GM that their actions have consequences.

We must show unity in the face of GM’s threats, because the effects of a closure would be catastrophic. A study just released today projects job losses will mount over time to reach 14,000 in Ontario and a further 10,000 elsewhere across Canada by 2025.

A backgrounder of the report is attached to this letter, view the full report at saveoshawagm.ca/study.

In solidarity,

Jerry Dias
National President

 

GM Oshawa Impact-V2

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Wireless To The Home Project

December 19, 2019

 

To:       All Bell and BTS Locals (Craft)

Re:       Wireless To The Home Project

 

On December 3rd we were asked to attend a meeting in Montreal at the Bell Canada head office to discuss a new proposed Wireless To The Home project (WTTH) for internet in regions where there is no fibre optic infrastructure.

At that meeting it was clear to us that the WTTH project has long been in the works by Bell. According to the company, a pilot project had recently been concluded and they were purportedly looking to now determine who was going to do the work of connecting customers when the project was launched in 2019.

Read more….Letter to Bell & BTS Craft re Wireless to the Home Project

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Structured Cable MOA signed December 14, 2018

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

 

B E T W E E N:

UNIFOR

-and-

BELL TECHNICAL  SOLUTIONS

RE: STRUCTURED CABLING DIVISION

(the “Union/Unifor”)

(“BTS/Company”)

 

 

Whereas the purpose of Letter of Agreement 13 in the Collective Agreement is to outline the terms upon which the parties will work towards formalizing an MOA clarifying the job descriptions and requirements of Technicians and Cable Pullers that are part of the Structured Cabling Division.

 

And whereas the parties have come to an agreement regarding the aforementioned items NOW, THEREFORE THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

  1. This agreement does not replace or supersede letter of agreement #13.

 

  1. The 15 employees identified (Appendix A) in the October 26 2018 meeting will have their common localities adjusted as per the document shared with the bargaining Their status will be changed accordingly if they are warranted of an upgrade in their correct common locality. This will be processed by January 31’1 2019.

 

  1. The work addresses of the structured cabling employees will be corrected in the HR system to reflect the work center associated with their common (see “Appendix 8” for details) This will be processed by January 31’12019

 

  1. The Company will advertise a 1-time posting process by January 31’12019 for only the technicians under the structured cabling division to move to rural areas outside of the GTA where the Company has sustainable

 

Read the full agreement here