KITCHENER, ON – CAW members at Lanark Place/Lanark Heights retirement home and long term care facility will demonstrate on Tuesday, June 22 for a fair contract. Negotiations between CAW Local 302 and Lanark have stalled, with the company refusing to drop demands for wage freezes and other concessions.

Similar demonstrations have already taken place across the province in response to a breakdown in negotiations with Extendicare and Revera – both long term care home providers.

“This employer is trying to hide behind Bill 16, the Public Sector Compensation Restraint Act, and refuses to bargain a fair wage for this group of front line health care workers,” saidBill Gibson, CAW Kitchener-area Director.

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240 City of Kitchener workers could be walking the picket line as early as tomorrow morning.  The outside and fleet workers – members of CUPE Local 68 – will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

Their duties include everything from maintenance of city arenas, including the Aud., to roads and sewers.

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