As of Thursday morning, 85 workers have been locked out by their employer Heritage Inn Hotels in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw.
UFCW Local 1400, which represents the workers, has been attempting to negotiate a collective agreement with the company on and off again since 2019, but failed to reach agreement.
“Heritage Inn Hotels are demanding unreasonable and unfair concessions from their workers,” a press release from UFCW 1400 said. “They demand that benefits and protections in current agreements be removed entirely. The workers have negotiated for many years to earn these benefits, like vision, dental and sick pay, and do not deserve for them to be removed.”“These locked-out workers are the same workers that were asked to risk their health and safety during the COVID pandemic, and now the employer wants to put them on the street,” said UFCW 1400 president Lucia Flack Figueiredo.
Outside of the minimum wage increases, they have offered only the most nominal of increases to the members, in specific classifications, ranging from $0.09 to $0.83 per hour over the almost seven-year term that they are proposing for the new collective agreement.
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