The union, representing Metis Child, Family and Community Services and Michif Child and Family Services, is applying for independent mediation to end the two -week strike.
Manitoba General Employees Union is telling the Manitoba Labor Board to order an intermediary to help resolve their contract dispute. The Sangh says that the retrenchment of both agencies is disrupting its right to strike.
“Today, effective, these employers have kept 20 percent of their employees,” says Mageu President Kyle Ross. “And the number of remaining employees in some areas will fall to the essential service levels or below. It leaves our members with a low ability to exercise our right to strike in such a way that will be meaningful affecting the operation of employers.
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“For this reason, they need access to independent arbitration to resolve that dispute.”
From 25 March, more than 300 employees are on the picket line. The dispute is mainly focused on wage equality, stating that they reduce $ 3 per hour compared to other agency employees doing the same work.
The Sangh is also alleging that agencies are drawing their legs in coming on an agreement to avoid an increase in retroactive wages for the workers that are being closed. Employees are operating under collective agreements that have ended in 2023, and increase in retroactive wages will be applicable only after the new agreement is confirmed.
“The workers who were kept today stood to lose two -year -old salaries,” says Ross.
In a statement, the Manitoba Metis Federation claims that they have not received enough funds from the provincial or federal governments to prevent pruning. The province has announced $ 2.4M in the first funding, but MMF says that it is currently sufficient to support less employees than agencies.
“Finally, our hands are tied,” said Mona Buors, MMF’s Child and Family Services Minister. “We have every interest in providing our employees equal wages and benefits, so we can recruit and maintain the best people to support our children in care. If the union can bring us Manitoba to the table to help us achieve it, we are happy to participate. If they can’t, we can not present anything else.”
Buors also accused the Sangh of “trying to score points with their membership, which we find ourselves that by making political grasses with real and serious condition.”
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