There's been an agreement by the company to give the unionized MCR workers a pay rise during a contract without offering this to their fellow union members. Is this side deal even legal? Doesn't this break up the union? A new low for the union.
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Meanwhile, down the pipeline, at the other compressor stations. Unionized staff has been leaving, at the rate of 1.5 persons per year since 2015to go corporate, leave completely or to less expensive places to live in southern Ontario where uionized pay is the same and cost of living is lower. And the talks of COLA or retention bonus in the CBA gets thrown in the trash when inflation is the highest since the 80’s…..The MCR gets the bonus and the rest get the Rusty Trambone!!!!
They should leave. If they can make $20/hr more down the road then go. Enbridge has fallen so far behind in competitive wage structure now. It's time that cost them.
Enbridge have been relying on a pool of qualified and marginalized people coming into STO from the district jobs. That pool will run dry soon.
I heard that the STO Dawn Technicians and Lobo, Bright, Parkway Technicians all joined Unifor!
Apparently they are calling it a "retention" premium. Looks like fully qualified staff are being given a $3.00 an hour premium in a meek effort to stop the bleeding that is occurring with people fleeing that job due to it being severely underpaid compared to their counterparts just 30 minutes down the road in chemical valley making $20 plus an hour more then them in jobs that are less stressful. Time for the company to realize that if they don't do something to address the wage gap we'll soon be losing qualified people to Tim Hortons.
What!