A collective agreement is a legally binding discussion paper that defines all your benefits (including salaries), rights and obligations as McMaster employees. All responsibilities and obligations of the employer (McMaster) are also exposed. The negotiations were difficult. The Detroit Three were looking for other concessions. The three major negotiating committees were strong and unified. In the run-up to the strike period, Ford and CAW reached an interim agreement. Members of the Detroit Three CAW in Canada have ratified the model agreement. The Ford agreement was ratified on September 23, 2012. The GM agreement was ratified on September 27, 2012. The chrysler agreement was ratified on September 30, 2012. On February 9, 2014, members of Unifor Local 88/AWC Ingersoll and Unifor Local 222/AWC Oshawa ratified a new collective agreement. The agreement provides for wage increases, lump sum payments, union safety for part-time workers, the language of safety and guard at work, maintains all benefits, improves union representation and office workers have entered the master`s degree to list a few.
The members (Ingersoll and Oshawa) ratified the agreement at 80.6%. In May 2007, CAW Local 88 and CAMI Automotive began negotiations to better position our place for a new product. A new collective agreement has been ratified by membership of CAW Local 88. For those of you who have concerns/questions, your first contact should be a steward. Stewards should be able to answer questions about your working agreements or the clarification of the language in the collective agreement and their connection to your specific situation. If you contact Stewards, please understand that the phone numbers on this list are their workplaces and, when they work, they should not talk about EU business during working hours. It`s usually a good practice to send an email to the steward with your questions or concerns, or if you need more information, you agree to a meeting time outside of basic work hours. At the end of each month, the work program updates a list of collective agreements from previous years that include 500 or more employees in provincial regions and 100 or more employees in federal jurisdiction. In early January, as a result of provincial legislation, when a bargaining partner must amend the parties must negotiate a new collective agreement, CAW and AWC began negotiating a first collective agreement. Unifor 88 members donated more than $7,257 to help our brother and sisters strike against Carmeuse Lime. They have been on strike since 17 January 2015. Members ratified a new collective agreement on April 19, 2015.
In April, AWC employees were informed that their service contract had been submitted by GM to bid. This is the first time we are 59 years old. AWC has made an offer to ensure future work. Unfortunately, the offer was not successful. On May 20 and 23, the AWC/Unifor negotiating committees discussed with AWC the development of a “shelf agreement” to secure the future service contract with GM. An agreement was ratified on 22 June 2014.