FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2005
Blood Services
Support Unit votes 67 per cent to accept new contract
Ontario Support Unit workers
with Canadian Blood Services voted 67 per cent in favour of
ratifying their new collective agreement yesterday.
The agreement gives the 850
workers a three per cent increase for each of the three years
of the contract plus improved benefits and better job security
provisions. Several classifications will receive additional
wage adjustments on top of the three per cent.
All four OPSEU Support Unit
locals ratified the agreement reached a week before a strike
deadline of July 25.
“These workers deserve
considerable credit for moving Canadian Blood Services towards
a deal,” says Leah Casselman, President of the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union. “They stuck to their agenda and have,
as a result, made considerable progress in this round of
bargaining.”
OPSEU has two other groups
still at the table with Canadian Blood Services. The 110
member technologists unit is looking for a deal when it next
meets with the employer August 8-9. The Thunder Bay Plasma
Unit is also at the bargaining table.
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For more information,
contact Rick Janson at 416-443-8888 ext 8207.
