> http://www.newswire.ca/releases/October1997/27/c5889.html > > Attention News/Labour Editors: > > TENTATIVE CONTRACT SETTLEMENT AT FIRST-EVER UNIONIZED WAL-MART > > WINDSOR, Ont., Oct. 27 /CNW/ - Eight months after the Ontario Labour > Relations Board (OLRB) certified the United Steelworkers to represent > employees at a store in Windsor, a tentative first contract has been > reached > with Wal-Mart Canada Inc. > Tom Collins, director of the Steelworkers' Retail Wholesale Division, > said today that the settlement will be presented to employees over the > next > several days, and that voting on whether to accept it will be next Sunday > (November 2). > ``The employees' negotiating committee worked long and hard to > achieve a > good settlement,'' Collins said, adding that no details will be released > until > employees have been able to review and vote on it. > The settlement comes after the Ontario Court of Appeal put an end to > Wal-Mart's application for judicial review of the OLRB's decision to give > the > Steelworkers automatic certification based on unfair labour practices > during a > 1996 organizing campaign. > Wal-Mart's application was unanimously dismissed, upholding the OLRB's > decision, and paving the way for concluding negotiations for a first > collective agreement. > > USWA E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > USWA WEBSITE: http://www.uswa.ca > > -30- >
