Strike Drags on in Kitimat
Kitimat, B.C. – Still no end in sight to the labour dispute in Kitimat.
According to Unifor, the first round of mediation broke down on April 20, after just three days at the bargaining table.
In a letter to its members, the Unifor Local 2300 Bargaining Committee, said the talks were moving “backwards.”
As a result of the breakdown, the union has requested financial assistance from Unifor locals across the country.
Meanwhile in a letter to the union on Friday (May 1), the District’s legal counsel and lead bargainer Adriana Wills, expressed her willingness to meet with the union “with a view to concluding a new Collective Agreement.”
The strike is now in its 10th week, putting 127 union members out of work.
The labour disruption has closed both arenas in the district and its swimming pool. It has also closed Radley Park and Hirsch Creek Park for camping and hiking.
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What I find funny is the city didn’t cease to operate other than a few parks and a swimming pool with all the union out on the picket line…?
Slinky.. As per usual management will do the bare minimum to keep some things open.. Usually they screw it up as well so it takes the union members to get things running right again once they are back to work. This cost of getting it running right are put on the tax payers.
So everything just stops completely whenever there’s a strike until ‘management’ caves into whatever the Union wants? And that’s called “free collective bargaining” by Unions? Is it any wonder with that kind of attitude that Unions continue to shrink in size and importance everywhere save in the public sector, and continue to set the stage for their complete demise there, too?
The only thing that stops for sure is the union members be paid..
Socredible.. So as you have a noticable hate for unions I am sure you don’t shop at union places..refuse to buy union made items.. Refuse benefits from employer etc… Or are you a hypocrite ? Hate unions but love all the good they have brought to the work place ?
‘As per usual management will do the bare minimum to keep some things open.. Usually they screw it up as well so it takes the union members to get things running right again once they are back to work.’
That made me back snort my coffee. Management doing the ‘bare minimum’ to fill in for the union flunkies, while they’re still doing their day jobs, and the world is still turning in Kitimat. Public sector unions are a self-serving, parasitic drain on any municipal, provincial or federal government.
P Val, what color is the sky in your world?
Lol.. The sky is blue.. And my brother lives in kitimat had a chat with him this weekend and he filled me in on what the flunkies in management have already ruined..lol
All you who run down the city workers are first to complain when the roads aren’t plowed, grass isn’t cut etc,..and of course it’s always the unions fault.. Has to be. In you’re eyes it seems management are basically gods..lol
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