Villa Marconi engaged in union busting as agency staff are hired to fill union positions

Solidarity

OTTAWA – The union representing staff at Ottawa’s Villa Marconi are calling out their employer’s union busting tactics after discovering agency staff filling in for laid off union members. Members in the laundry department were unceremoniously laid off by management in June, leaving the department short-staffed and under resourced. “We are seeing the same mistakes…

OCEU: Ford government’s review of WSIB an opportunity to improve services for injured workers

Health and Safety, Solidarity

The union representing workers at WSIB is asking the government to protect jobs and improve service delivery for injured workers in the province TORONTO – The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU), which represents more than 3,700 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), is cautiously warning the government that as part of their…