[news] Saskatoon Credit Union Threatens to use Scabs

[resist admin]

Roughly 150 employees of the Saskatoon Credit Union are on
the picket line after being served a lock out notice on May
2nd.

Workers from all nine branches of the credit union in
Saskatoon and Warman are walking pickets.

Don Logan of the United Food and Commercial Workers union
says says the company told the employees that it would use
scabs to keep branches open.

"If the employer plans to grow its business, then
certainly, the employees should have an opportunity to have
their jobs grow with it," says Logan.

The union says it wants a new contract that would assure
job postings continue for all jobs and that job
displacement rules continue to apply for employees who are
laid off.

They also want to make sure that employees from any
subsidiary companies set up by the credit union are also
covered under their contract.


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Yours for the New Society,

Mark Dickson