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Fort Frances , Ontario
Fort Frances
About 45 Tim Hortons workers in Fort Frances, Ontario, banded together to form a union this past year, joining the United Food and Commercial Workers, one of Canada's largest private sector unions.
About 45 Tim Hortons workers in Fort Frances, Ontario, banded together to form a union this past year, joining the United Food and Commercial Workers, one of Canada's largest private sector unions.
The outlet is the only Tim Hortons in the small northern Ontario town of about 8,000 people.
"Job security was the number one factor why they decided to join UFCW," said Nathalie Vengal, an organizer with the union.
Workers bargained annual wage increases, three days paid bereavement leave as well as seniority rights for scheduling and vacation time. Moreover, both full-time and part-time staff will be entitled to benefits.
Vengal said that prior to unionization, access to benefits was restricted without a clear explanation of eligibility. The collective agreement language removed that ambiguity.
Many of the workers at the outlet are close to retirement age and sought job security and benefits.
Vengal said that the older employees found allyship among the younger cohort -- many of them high school and college students -- who wanted to fight for their older counterparts.
"For [the younger workers] it's a part-time job," she said. "But they cared so much about more senior workers and they said, 'You know, I want to do it for them.'"
"[It shows] working together brings a lot of momentum, it brings a lot of strength, to stand together and bargain," Vengal said. "That's what the whole labour movement should be about, right? Allyship and solidarity."
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“Senator Beyak’s shameful defence of the Indian residential school system is unbefitting for a member of the Senate,” said Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of NAN.
Comments in support of Canada’s punitive Indian residential school system could hurt Ontario Senator Lynn Beyak in the pocketbook.
Beyak’s family owns two car dealerships in Dryden and Fort Frances, Ont., smackdab in the middle of Grand Council Treaty 3 and Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory.
“I’m calling for a boycott,” said Tania Cameron, a First Nation’s activist in Kenora.
“I’ll be sending letters to the First Nation leadership and, of course, using social media.”
Cameron said tribal councils and First Nations use the winter road season to make major purchases.
“This is their time to buy vehicles. They’ll go to Thunder Bay, Dryden, Kenora, Winnipeg even…and I certainly don’t find it fitting that Beyak’s businesses should benefit from First Nation dollars.”
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October 2017 Monthly Playlist:
No Roots - Alice Merton Bring Us Together - The Asteroids For the Damaged Coda - Blonde Redhead The Lion The Beast The Beat - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Until We Get There - Lucius Lost in the Zoo - Goddamn Electric Bill Strong (RAC Remix) - London Grammar, RAC Psychotic Girl - The Black Keys Bottom of the River - Delta Rae Building A Wall - Fort Frances Let It Grow - Maximum Balloon, Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe No One Has To Know - GoldFish
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