Bargaining

Coast Mountain Bus – Unifor Strike – Update #4


October 31, 2019

To: All MoveUP members at CMBC & TransLink


MoveUP has appointed a Job Action Committee in the event that Unifor escalates their job action to rotating pickets at CMBC locations. MoveUP has learned via the media that the first stage of job action for Unifor, in the event a deal is not reached by November 1, 2019 by 8:00am, is an overtime and uniform ban.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/transit-strike-metro-vancouver-1.5342449

The Job Action Committee will be into operation if Unifor escalates their job action to rotating/full strike. The role of this Committee will be to manage the entire MoveUP picket operations. This includes: scheduling picket captains, assigning shifts, coordinating issues on the picket lines, and fielding questions from members.

The members of the Job Action Committee are:

·         Ralph Paterno – CMBC Transit Security
·         Elena Klein –CMBC Transit Instructor
·         Jamie Bantog – CMBC Transit Instructor
·         Jennifer Froese – TransLink
·         Safar Alikhani – Transit Executive Board Member

MoveUP has created an e-mail address for this job action. All questions about this job action should be directed to this e-mail address: cmbcjobaction@moveuptogether.ca

In Solidarity,

Parm Sandhar, Union Representative


File Number: 19-CMBC-BARG-BLTN-Unifor Bargaining Update #4-October 31
Union Label: PS/LJ: USW2009

 

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