Union and the bosses are in the residential construction sector

News 17 October, 2017

QMI agency

Monday, 16 October 2017 17:48

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MONTREAL | The union representing construction workers in the residential sector has agreed with the employer on a new collective agreement. The two parties have the announcement Monday.

If it is endorsed by the trade union Alliance for the residential sector and by the employers, the agreement could enter into force in the next few weeks. The new collective agreement governs the working conditions in this sector of the middle of the building until 2021.

No detail has been specified in the agreement, including on possible salary increases or improved working conditions.

“We are very pleased with the conclusion of this agreement after a long negotiation process which, we must say, has always been in compliance. Today we have a agreement that provides wage increases to the benefit of workers while taking account of the economic context and the capacity to pay of employers,” said vice-president strategic Development and Communications of the APCHQ, François-William Simard, by way of a press release.

For his part, the spokesman of the Alliance, Michel Trépanier, was delighted that the parties have not reached agreement in the residential sector. “However, we hope that the bosses will give up their applications that greatly affect the daily lives of the families of our workers so that we can hear,” he said in reference to the other sectoral negotiations still ongoing.

The negotiations in the various sectors in the construction sector have dominated the news in the spring, culminating with a week of strike action in may. This had concluded with the imposition of a special law forcing the return to work of all construction employees. The government had also imposed the deadline of October 30, 2017 the parties to agree, failing which a mediator would be appointed to resolve the conflict.

Since, different sectors, including civil engineering and roadwork, managed to hear. Negotiations are continuing in the areas of institutional, commercial and industrial.