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The global semiconductor chip shortage will result in both of Ford Motor Company’s Windsor engine plants getting an additional shutdown week.
The company has confirmed to Unifor Local 200 officials the Essex Engine and Windsor Annex plants will now be down the week of May 31. Both plants were running normally this week.
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The company also confirmed its Oakville Assembly complex, which is supplied by three local firms, will be idled for the weeks of May 31 through the week of June 21.
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VICTORIA Victoria City Council passed a motion Thursday to create a working group that would see Victoria City Hall and the local hospitality industry working together toward the goal of mandating sexualized violence training in the workplace. The requirement could be a condition for approval of a liquor or business licence. “It’s about changing the culture,” said Coun. Sarah Potts. “It’s about having this at the outset of the work: ‘This is part of what we do and this isn’t something that is not talked about.’” The motion comes after multiple survivors of sexual assault in the hospitality industry have shared their stories publicly. Multiple restaurants have come under fire and removed staff members, and one of those restaurants closed its doors permanently. Additionally, two realtors lost their jobs due to the allegations against them, which have not been proven in court.
About two dozen Reliance Home Comfort employees in Thunder Bay have been locked out because of an ongoing labour dispute and began walking the picket line on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – About 25 union workers at Reliance Home Comfort in Thunder Bay have started walking the picket line after being locked out by the parent company.
Russ Cooper, a Unifor Local 1999 steward, said the workers have been without a contract since the end of March and are fighting to ensure newer employees are given benefits similar to longer-serving employees.
“The main issues with us are pensions and sick days and personal days,” Cooper said. “There’s a two-tiered system for benefits here. The older employees have one system and the newer employees have a much lesser system, where the benefits are a lot less, the pension is a lot less.