Tuesday April 3, 2007
For Immediate Release
Toronto, ON – Organizers from IAMAW District Lodge 78 produced an organizing drive hat trick in the last week of March 2007.
Three part-time employees of the Oshawa Community Credit Union have become the newest members of IAMAW Local Lodge 901. The members were certified following a bitter four-month organizing drive after management withdrew their objection to IAMAW representation of three part-time employees. IAMAW Local Lodge 901 has represented 15 full-time employees at the Oshawa Community Credit Union for more than 12 years.
Twenty five full-time employees at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Brampton are the newest members of IAMAW Local Lodge 2243. “These people turned to the Machinists for better wages and benefits,” said IAMAW District Lodge 78 Organizer Scott Jackson.
The new members include cooks, bartenders, house keeping and maintenance staff.
Twenty two full-time employees at the Kingsway Arms Retirement Home in Clarington, east of Toronto, joined the ranks of IAMAW Local Lodge 901. The new members consist of nurses, cooks, cafeteria and housekeeping staff and receptionists.
IAMAW, among the largest industrial trade unions in North America, represents more than 700,000 active and retired members, and administers more than 5,000 contracts in transportation, woodworking, aerospace, manufacturing and defense related industries.
For further information:
Scott Jackson – IAMAW District Lodge 78 Organizer
416-225-9003/416-579-0854
Bill Trbovich – IAMAW Director of Communications
416-386-1789 ext 31/416-735-9765
