The union says its members will probably be in place to stroll off the job in late October if the deadlock hasn’t been solved after receiving a 99.6 per cent strike mandate in final Friday’s vote.
Round 300 former Shaw technicians absorbed by Rogers Communications Inc. throughout the firms’ merger have overwhelmingly voted to strike over issues about job safety following latest layoffs and voluntary departures.
The union representing the employees, who’re based mostly in Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and Langley, says these job losses name into query Rogers’ dedication to create 3,000 new jobs in Western Canada over 5 years — a federally mandated situation of the $26-billion takeover.
In July, Rogers started providing voluntary departure packages and confirmed an unspecified variety of workers have been laid off because it built-in with Shaw and labored to remove duplication.
Jayson Little, a spokesperson for United Steelworkers union Native 1944, says Rogers is searching for to erode contractual language that forestalls employees technicians’ work from being carried out by contractors at houses and companies. Rogers didn’t instantly present remark.
The union says its members will probably be in place to stroll off the job in late October if the deadlock hasn’t been solved after receiving a 99.6 per cent strike mandate in final Friday’s vote.
The 2 sides have been on the bargaining desk since February because the union’s members work underneath the phrases of their earlier collective settlement that expired on March 23.
