After a year and a half of fruitless negotiations, workers at the organization SOS Violence Conjugale will hold a day of strike on Saturday to denounce the “apparent bad faith of management”.
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The main demands of the organization relate, among other things, to salaries, equal treatment of permanent and substitute workers, improved management of recall lists, increased insurance benefits, retention of acquired skills, especially with regard to vacation, and making it more difficult to take vacation provided for in the collective agreement.
“Negotiations have officially started since November 2020 and we have been almost stationary since then after 21 meetings. The union even had to seek arbitration in February 2021 because the employer persistently refused to schedule bargaining meetings,” said Laurent Thivierge, general secretary of the union confederation, in a press release. , representing approximately fifteen workers who work for the organization.
To mark the day of the strike, the union is holding a barbecue in solidarity with the workers of SOS conjugal violence in Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park in Montreal, starting at 1 p.m. There will be hot dogs and requests on the menu. The public is invited to meet the striking workers and express their support.