CUPE's case against concessions via fpcomment
As a labour leader and occasional social media user, I am pretty used to hearing how, because we now have weekends and minimum wage standards and health and safety laws, the work of unions in Canada is complete. The reality is otherwise.
Wage stagnation, skyrocketing costs of living and precarious jobs: In 2019, this is the fight that labour unions are engaged in. That is one of the cornerstones of CUPE’s national bargaining policy, which sets out how our local unions engage in bargaining with their employers. The policy emphasizes a few things. Foremost among them is that we don’t accept concessions on previously earned contract provisions at the bargaining table. Full stop. And we won’t sell out future generations of workers by agreeing to “two-tier” proposals — things we won’t accept for ourselves, but which we are being asked to force on future hires.
A little over a year ago, the Carleton board of governors were trying to get CUPE 2424 to strip any mention of pension bargaining rights from their collective agreement. It would have made the plan less reliable and given members less control. But our members were not willing to gamble their pensions after already earning the right to a dignified, secure retirement. So, in response, they took to the picket lines for four weeks in the middle of a blistering cold Ottawa winter.
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