Standing strong to demand long-overdue, significant improvements to their working conditions, Steelworkers across the country are achieving some of the best collective agreements in a generation.
Leading the way are some of our union’s largest industrial locals, where members are demanding – and winning – a fair share of the pie from corporations that are reaping massive profits.
Locals 2251 and 2724 – Algoma Steel, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
In separate agreements, two locals with a combined membership of nearly 2,800 workers won five-year contracts with 3% wage increases annually, as well as annual cost-of-living adjustments, annual pension improvements and numerous improvements to contract language and benefit plans, including improved health benefits at retirement. Local 2251 represents some 2,200 production and maintenance workers at Algoma, while Local 2724 represents roughly 550 salaried employees, including office, technical and front-line supervisory staff.
Local 480 – Teck Resources’ Trail Operations, Trail, B.C.
The 1,300 Steelworkers in two bargaining units at Teck’s smelting and refining operations in Trail, B.C., made monetary gains in five-year agreements. New contracts provide 2% annual wage increases, a $12,000 ratification bonus and a $2,000 bonus in each subsequent year, for total bonuses of $20,000 per member. The contracts include annual pension improvements, increased LTD, maternity leave top-up and an increase to the group RRSP.
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