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ROGERS CABLE WORKERS' SETTLEMENT

MARCH 1 2000

Vice-President Neil Morrison advises that after many months of bargaining, the TWU and Rogers Cable Tuesday reached a tentative contract settlement for the Rogers Cable workers in Vancouver and Surrey, who are members of TWU Local 60. A ratification meeting has been set for Wednesday, March 15, at 5:30 p.m., at the Kings Inn on Kingsway, in Burnaby. This is a six-year agreement expiring in March of 2004. For the first year, there will be a lump sum signing bonus of $2,500 per member, of which $2,380 goes to the member and $120 goes to the Health and Welfare Plan. There will be percentage wage increases for each of the last five years of the contract. There will be retroactive 5.07% increase covering the period March 24, 1999 to March 23, 2000, with an additional $10 per month going into the Health and Welfare Plan. There will be wage increases of 3% per year plus

an additional $10 per year into the Health and Welfare Plan for each of the next three years, taking effect in March 2000, March 2001 and March 2002. The final year of the contract, March 2003 to March 2004 will see a further 3% wage increase effective March 24, 2003. The wage increases will take a journeyperson from the current $24.67 at expiry of contract in 1998 to $29.17 as of March of 2003. The Union also made significant gains in areas of jurisdiction, contracting-out and job security. On jurisdiction, the 1987 date is out of the collective agreement and jurisdiction is updated to the day of the contract. On work jurisdiction, the Union has captured jurisdiction over telephony and internet modems. On contracting-out, 40% of please turn over installation work presently contracted out will come back into the bargaining unit, at a rate of 10% per year for four years. In addition, the Company agrees that all employees who leave will be replaced, and an additional

ten workers will be hired in Vancouver, five of who shall be indentured apprentices, and in Surrey, ten will be hired, two of whom will be indentured apprentices. In additions, no contractors will be called out for emergency service or maintenance work until all employees on the Vancouver and Surrey callout lists have been called. On Service work, a Letter of Agreement states technical employees will be the primary providers of service work. There is guaranteed employment during the life of the contract provided the Company retains 95% of its customer base. Again, the vote is March 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kings Inn in Burnaby. Absentee ballots will be available at the Union Office from this Friday until 2 p.m. on March 15.

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RESTAURONICS CONTRACT RATIFIED	JULY 1999
By a vote of 40 to 6, or more than 85%, workers at Restauronics Food Services approved their first collective agreement at a ratification meeting Thursday evening. The tentative agreement between Restauronics and the TWU, reached Tuesday night after 11 months of bargaining, is a three-year deal. Business Agent Betty Carrasco said the agreement contains	good contract language and a strong wage package. The Restauronics workers provide cafeteria services at various BC TEL locations. The agreement runs from today through to June 30 of 2002. More

CAMPBELL-GOODALL-TRAYNOR
TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
JULY 7 1998

The TWU has reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with Campbell-Goodall-Traynor, the Vancouver-based polling and surveying company organized by the Union the February. The two-year Collective Agreement was signed off the night of Tuesday, June 30. The contract runs from July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2000, and provides across-the-board wage increases totaling $2.40 over the two years. The increases are 40 cents effective immediately, July 1 a further 50 cents an hour on October 1, 1998, a further 50 cents effective January 1, 1999, and an additional $1 an hour on July 1, 1999. Union negotiations were led by Business Agent, Bruce Bell and Staff Researcher, Sid Shniad, with worker representatives Gillian Dean and Mark Perrault. In addition to the substantial wage increase, the agreement provides for a Health and Benefit plan jointly funded on a 50-50 basis by the employer and employees, and includes long term disability, life insurance and a limited health benefit pool for various extended health benefits. Vacation improvements include an additional one week's vacation, for a total of three weeks, after two years service, and an additional two weeks for four weeks total after four years. The agreement also contains language for improved provisions on monitoring, as well as other provisions. A ratification meeting has been set for Saturday, July 11, at 6:30 pm, in the Galiano Island Room of the Hotel Vancouver in downtown Vancouver.

JULY 6 1998
TRI-COM SECURITY
ORGANIZED
Following a hearing at the BC Labour Relations Board on Friday, the TWU now has 17 new members employed at Tri-Com Emergency Services. Tri-Com is a Burnaby-based Alarm Monitoring company organized by the TWU two or three years ago. At the time, the employee in the monitoring section were organized. There are currently about 25 members in the monitoring section. Recently, the union signed up the employees in the Security section of Tri-Com, and Friday's hearing was to seek a variance bringing the Security people as well into the union.

TWO NEW CERTIFICATIONS
MAY 12 1998
Organizer Les Buss advises that the TWU was granted automatic certification as bargaining agent to two new work groups at a hearing today before the BC Labour Relations Board. 83 new members are employees of Beaver Foods Ltd., cafeteria workers at 13 BCTEL locations around the province. The other new certification covers a Vancouver-based telemarketing firm, Market Link. 60 new members will be joining the TWU from Market Link. They will become members of new TWU Local 63.