[news] CLC Executive Approves IWA Scabbing

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From: Will Offley <willo at lynx.bc.ca>
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Subject: [pr-x] CLC Executive Approves IWA Scabbing
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:52:54 -0800

HEU Newsletters

    November 14, 2003

    CUPE will continue to press case of BC
    health care workers

    The Executive Committee of the Canadian Labour
    Congress has rejected CUPEs solution to bringing the
    IWA-Canada into compliance with the CLC constitution.

    A neutral umpire appointed by CLC President Ken
    Georgetti ruled last month that IWA-Canada was in
    violation of the CLC Constitution when it signed voluntary
    partnership agreements with private health sector
    corporations that are taking over work from public health
    facilities represented by CUPE-HEU.

    In a conference call meeting earlier today, CUPE asked
    the CLC Executive Committee to decide on CUPEs
    previously tabled motion calling on IWA-Canada:

         to withdraw from these partnership agreements;
         to withdraw all its certification applications for
         former CUPE-HEU work currently before the BC
         Labour Relations Board;
         to withdraw from the IWA raid application covering
         workers at the Renfrew Long Term Care Facility;
         and
         to cease and desist from signing further
         agreements related to CUPE-HEU work.

    The motion was defeated. A motion proposed by CLC
    President Ken Georgetti was subsequently adopted. This
    motion calls on IWA-Canada to cease and desist from
    signing further voluntary agreements related to Bill 29 in
    BC, and to freeze its presence in the health care sector
    to the four voluntary agreements it has signed. Further,
    IWA-Canada is restricted within these four voluntary
    agreements to contracts already awarded or currently
    tendered.

    The position adopted by the CLC Executive Committee
    does not give CUPE-HEU the redress we are seeking.
    Delegates to CUPEs national convention recently voted
    unanimously to take whatever steps are necessary to
    pressure for full redress. CUPEs National Executive
    Committee and Board will be meeting mid-December to
    decide CUPEs next steps.

    Paul Moist
    National President

    Claude Généreux