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“OPSEU Local 345 is 98 per cent women, and it’s the only local at the hospital that’s being targeted with a wage freeze." — Eddy Almeida, OPSEU First Vice-President/Treasuer
Toronto (11 Dec. 2018) — Global News is reporting on the bad faith bargaining complaint being filed by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/NUPGE) over the wage freezes management wants to impose on a group comprised mostly of mostly women who do clerical work at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.
Only 1 local getting wage freeze, 98% are women
"In September, an arbitrator ruled the members of OPSEU Local 345 deserve a contract that includes reasonable wage increases over 5 years,” Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President is quoted as saying.
“But it’s clear now that management never intended to honour the arbitrator’s ruling. They’re trying to use a secretive and suspect job evaluation process to weasel out of the contract," said Thomas.
"This is an attack on women, pure and simple,” Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida, OPSEU First Vice-President/Treasurer is quoted as saying. “OPSEU Local 345 is 98 per cent women, and it’s the only local at the hospital that’s being targeted with a wage freeze."