Victory for Omni
Workers in Vancouver!
After an intensive nine month campaign, workers at Omni Cleaning in B.C. have won Union recognition.
The Union has successfully negotiated a first collective agreement. The Union is currently planning ratification meetings.
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Impact Cleaner in Toronto meeting
Raises Health and Safety Concerns
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Ottawa Janitors in the News
The campaign to unite for a better future that jantitors in the Ottawa region have been waging has been picked up by a major newspaper, the Ottawa Citizen.
Read the articles ...
Union Seeks to Clean up Janitorial Abuses
OTTAWA — A union trying to organize the city’s 6,000 cleaners is first taking aim at the hundreds of workers who scrub and mop federal buildings at wages and working conditions that violate national and provincial labour laws. Read more ...
Outcome Disturbing, Former Labour Leader Says
Former labour leader Daryl Bean said it’s disturbing that workers who clean federal buildings may be making less than they did when they were on the federal payroll more than 20 years ago. Read more ...