We are pleased to report that this week the Bee-Clean maintenance workers in Dieppe and Saint John NB and St. John’s NL have ratified two new collective agreements with their employer.
Union negotiators, including a bargaining unit member, began meeting with Bee-Clean management in February and came to a surprisingly quick tentative agreement. Our demands that were achieved include:
- Increased wages, pay protection and protection against inflation;
- More paid leave including increased vacation, sick, bereavement leave;
- New paid leaves, including: leave for other reasons (closure of the office, weather, power outage etc.), quarantine leave, and domestic violence leave;
- better health and safety protections and money for protective equipment.
The employers’ negotiators started out with some wrong information from the local managers but we were quick to show them the truth.