Thousands of City of Calgary workers vote in favour of strike action – Calgary | 24CA News
Thousands of City of Calgary employees voted in favour of strike motion after negotiations between the union and town resulted in three rejected gives.
According to CUPE 38 president D’Arcy Lanovaz, 4,200 out of 5,600 members voted between May 15 and 16. The vote was 89 per cent in favour of strike motion.
The union represents town’s “inside workers,” which incorporates improvement employees, bylaw workers, engineering techs, water therapy workers, administrative employees, utility and development technicians, social employees and concrete planners, amongst others.
The union additionally represents round 900 Calgary Police Service civilian workers.
The CUPE 38 president mentioned members are involved with wages not maintaining with inflation and the shortage of flexibility to make money working from home.
Lanovaz mentioned members need to have the ability to work a minimal of two days at house however are requesting further work-from-home days through the week to be accredited on the supervisory stage, as a substitute of on the senior administration stage.
Lanovaz advised Global News on Tuesday that CUPE 38 has been in negotiations with town since final November and went into mediation in March. The negotiations have resulted in three rejected gives.
Lanovaz added CUPE 38 representatives met with town by way of a mediator once more on Tuesday with no settlement or decision.
The subsequent step is to renew and proceed discussions with out having to take work-to-rule motion, which implies union members can refuse extra time and any further duties. There is not any timeline for work-to-rule motion and the state of affairs may be very fluid, Lanovaz mentioned.
If no settlement is reached throughout work-to-rule motion, Lanovaz mentioned rotating strikes could be the subsequent step.
Global News reached out to the City of Calgary with a request for remark.
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