Workers want job security after Rogers reportedly laid off employees following its merger with Shaw
Hundreds of Rogers workers in Metro Vancouver may go on strike in October after union members on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favour of giving their union the right to call for job action – including a strike.
“We will be in a strike position at the end of October. If there is no movement in the days ahead to renew a respectable collective agreement that protects our jobs, then we will have no choice but to take further job action, up to and including a strike,” said Jayson Little, a USW spokesperson. “Instead, Rogers turns around and offers voluntary severance packages and is now pushing for aggressive contracting out language in bargaining,” said Little.
“Rogers needs to be building and strengthening its workforce in the West, not reducing its workforce by contracting out our jobs,” said Little.
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