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St. John’s Dockyard workers give
thumbs up to three-year contract
United Steelworkers Local 9503

members at the St. John’s Dockyard
Ltd. floating drydock facility ratified

the agre: wi
will average in the $25
er hour range.
Increases to the registered retire-
ment plan are set at a 2 per cent
increase in each of the first two
years and 3 per cent in the third.
The union negotiated another stat

Boyd
Bussey

Service representative Boyd Bussey
notes that there are up to 450 mem-
bers on the seniority list, depending
on the volume of work orders. The

provinces The teins of the collec-
pply when they are
ainsi in far-off places.

Contract ratified at CIBC branches

May sixty-six workers at five
Sudbury branches of the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce voted to
ratify a collective agreement. The
Pa :

includes wage

increases ranging up to $1.65 an
hour over the life of the contract.
District 6 Director Wayne Fraser says
the agreement, which includes a

The collective agree-
ment epralent on November 30, 2007.

[> Three Year (ACO: irotects Inco Workers Steelworkers at Inco
Ltd. operations in aree-year agr May 31. The con-
tract covers some 3,100 eles Tesco and 150 Local 6200 members at the compa-
nies Sudbury and Port Colbourne
operations. District 6 Director
ares PEERS lp Heated ae

ae fet Local 6500, said the
agreement protects workers from
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a takeover or merger process.
Since October of last year, Inco
has been trying to takeover
Falconbridge, while Swiss-based
Xstrata PLC has since tried to do the same. Subsequently Inco became the tar-
get of a takeover by Teck Comico. Now Inco and Falconbridge are being both
bid on by Phelps Dodge. The USW-Inco agreement provides wage increases of
at least $2.50 per hour on top of a $4,000 signing bonus for
full-time employees. Those with 30 will now get
a minimum Daa of $3,300 pet an and ae benefits

three year agreement. Hans erascy

ealth pen
fits. An ings-based
a each worker $15,000 over ast next 3 ser will remain. A
Wayne Fraser 4 hour mediated barg: g led to th t
The pe ies 98 A in f of taki il to beck their
tract also includ shan to improve worker

git d in rst s Ontario Division. [> Union joins call to halt privatization
On June 3, Steelworkers joued a major rally against the Ontario government's

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plan to privatize p Ipsafsces The Dalia McGuinty govern-
Partnerships
| (P3’s) to private sinftcstrudiiie and services
including public transit, schools, roads, hos-
pitals and social services. Union members
from eee and sourayesiem Ontario
were in att

iked event
Joining a list of speakers which included
OFL president Wayne Samuelson, OPSEU
President Leah Casselman , and CUPE’s

Sid ier was get G’s Assistant to the
Director Marie Kelly, who brought y from the USW, not-
ing that while public services are ee attack, puvate seciad lal are under
assault as well, as many emp t d work. Buses
carrying labour council affiliates arrived from Hamilton, Orangeville, Kitchener,
Cambridge, London and other communities.

Pp as eTo/1 y
(center )
spoke at anti-P3 rally. MARTY WARREN

30 I JUNE 2006 THE ALLIED WORKER