Company must work to rebuild trust after lockout: USW
Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 4297, employed by PTI Manitoba in Winnipeg, ratified a new collective agreement Sept. 27 with the company.
The agreement comes after a challenging round of bargaining during which PTI Manitoba management demanded a number of concessions that would have rolled back decades worth of improvements to the collective agreement and proceeded with a lockout of their own employees, according to the union.
"Faced with attacks by management, Steelworkers stood together and supported the work of the bargaining committee to achieve a fair deal that protects the pension plan and maintains retirement security for all employees," said Roy Leslie, USW staff representative.
