Wage increases, benefits plan, pay for breaks, statutory holidays part of new deal: UFCW
Workers at Canada Catering in Meaford, Ontario ratified their first collective agreement Sept. 23, which brings wage increases and a new health and welfare benefit plan.
The new contract runs until December 2018 and covers 35 United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), Local 1006A members who work in the kitchen and cafeteria at the Canadian Armed Forces 4th Canadian Division Training Centre.
"I would like to congratulate the members at Canada Catering for their solidarity and strength in achieving their first contract," says UFCW Local 1006A President Wayne Hanley. "Through their unity, the workers prevailed in a tough negotiating environment to win this solid agreement.”
Highlights of the new contract include: Wage increases, health and welfare benefits through the Commercial Workers Benefit Trust, increased bereavement benefits, overtime after eight hours in a day and 40 hours in a week, time-and-a-half pay for any work on statutory holidays, paid breaks and rest periods, a new grievance procedure and new seniority language.
