Wage hikes, enhanced benefits coverage part of contract: UFCW
Food processing members at United Food and Commercial Workers union Canada (UFCW), Local 248P reached a new contract on Sept. 25 with Canadian agri-food company Bunge North America.
Working at the Bunge facility in Nipawin, Sask., UFCW 248P members made many gains, including wage increases throughout the new contract, enhanced coverage for vision care and eyeglasses, employer paid-time for union information sessions and new apprenticeship and skilled-trades language, said the union.
The UFCW 248P workers in Nipawin join other UFCW Canada members at Bunge in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario, who make much of the country’s canola oil and by-products.
