Independent Linen

Effective January 15, 2008, the following improvements occur as a result of your collective agreement:

• All workers at the end rate of their classification receive a wage increase of 35 cents per hour.

  Reminder:

• The lead hand premium is 75 cents per hour.

• Statutory holiday hours are used in calculating overtime.

• Company contribution to the healthcare spending account is $130 per employee per year.

• Pension contributions are $2.25 per week.

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Klunski Transport

Effective in 2008, the following improvements occur as a result of your collective agreement:

• Pay/rate increases are as follows:

  • Highway Drivers – 51 cents per mile (full rate)

  • Mechanics – 25 cents per hour

  • Tractor, Shunt & Local Tractor Drivers - $19.80 (full rate)

  • Truck Washers - $14.50 (full rate)

  • Red Circled Workers (effective Jan. 1, 2008) - $15.10

  • Yard Services - $15.50 (full rate)

  • Straight Truck Drivers - $19.20 (full rate)

• Workers with one year of service receive improved pension contributions from the company of 60 cents per hour to a maximum of $24 per week.

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Loeb Ogilvie

Effective January 27, 2008, the following improvements occur as a result of your collective agreement:

• The top rate for all full-time workers increases by 35 cents per hour.

• The top rate for all part-time workers, hired prior to Aug. 29, 2005, also increases by 35 cents per hour.

• Company contributions to the pension plan increase to 70 cents per hour worked.

• The hourly contribution the company makes to the dental plan increases to 33 cents per hour.

• The safety shoe allowance increases to $75 per year for full-time workers and $80 every two years for part-time employees.

  Reminder:

• Those working on Courtesy Cash receive a shift premium of 75 cents per hour and Assistant Department managers receive a premium of $1 per hour.

• Night Crew workers receive a shift premium of 95 cents per hour.

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Perth Community Care

Effective January 1, 2008 (unless otherwise noted), the following improvements occur as a result of your collective agreement:

• All rates and classifications receive a wage increase of 35 cents per hour with Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) receiving an additional 25 cents per hour adjustment.

• Effective July 1, 2008, company contributions to the pension plan increase to 63 cents per hour.

• Contributions to the health and welfare plan increase to 8 per cent paid by the company and 3 per cents paid by the employee, effective July 1, 2008.

  Reminder:

• A 30 cent per hour shift premium applies to all hours worked on the weekend.

• Supervisor/Co-ordinator relief pay has increased to 75 cents per hour.

• Vacation pay is not included as earnings in the calculation of your vacation pay.

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Watson Foods

Effective January 1, 2008, the following improvements occur as a result of your collective agreement:

• Wages increase by 25 cents per hour.

• Workers with five years of service receive an increased pension contribution of $24 per week, up from $22 per week, from the company.

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UFCW Canada Retail Council calls on Loblaw Companies to honour its labour contracts

UFCW Canada, the union that represents workers at grocery stores and warehouses across Canada operated by Loblaw Companies Limited is calling on the company to honour its labour contracts and to stop ignoring its labour relations obligations. The union is insisting that the company recognize all workers’ basic rights.

Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada's largest food retailer operating under a number of banners including Loblaw, Zehrs, Real Canadian Superstore, Atlantic Superstore, No Frills, Fortinos, Extra Foods, Wholesale Club, Maxi, and Provigo.

According to Wayne Hanley, the national president of UFCW Canada, "across this country Loblaw is systematically embarking on a campaign of failing to respond to the grievances of our members and in many cases is unreasonably delaying the resolution of matters. It is as if workplace relations have disappeared in the struggling company."

Hanley's comments followed a meeting of the UFCW Canada Retail Council yesterday. The council is made up of the leadership of the UFCW Canada local unions that represent the Loblaw-banner workers across Canada, including UFCW Canada Locals 1000A, 175, 1977, 1518, 247, 401, 832, 1400, 500R, 501, 1991P, 503, 486, 1288P, and 864.

The Retail Council meeting was convened to discuss the state of the retail food industry in Canada and quickly became consumed with discussions surrounding Loblaw's flagrant disregard of the various collective agreements covering the terms and conditions of employment of its workers, as well as its hostile positioning in advance of negotiations for new collective agreements for its stores in western Canada.

"Loblaw has become a company that seems to have lost its direction and focus going forward into the future," said Hanley.

"Its actions and the attitudes exhibited by senior management and those at the store level have become poisonous to the notion of a co-operative relationship between the company and its employees. That's not good for Loblaw or its customers and it's not good for the shareholders including the Weston family."

"UFCW Canada is not willing to tolerate such acts by Loblaw to circumvent and undermine our representational rights," said Hanley.

"Our local unions from coast to coast will be vigorously enforcing their collective agreements with the company and if the company's combative mood continues our union will respond leading up to negotiations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia, as well as in Alberta where negotiations are approaching a critical stage."

"In preparation for further action, we are also reviewing the company's recent decisive conviction under Alberta's labour laws of violating workers' rights to free association without coercion, intimidation, or harassment."

"We're in this for the long haul and so should be Loblaw. We encourage the company to act in good faith and to resolve our mutual problems in the interest of our members employed by the company and in the long term interests of the business."

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