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The year wrapped up with no progress in the labour dispute that has put 124 employees of the OLG Slots at Rideau Carleton Raceway on a picket line.
Ottawa police said one man on the picket line was hit by a car entering the property Wednesday and received minor injuries. The case is still under investigation, and on Thursday there was no decision about possible charges.
Doug Marshall, president of the Union of National Employees, said the man has a hurt knee and is now walking with a cane. He said the man has been advised to rest the leg for a week.
No talks are scheduled, and Marshall said this is because management has set preconditions for getting back to bargaining: agreement to a two-year wage freeze and removal of language in the contract that protects the pension plan.
He said management is trying to make the operation easier to sell by weakening the collective agreement that a new buyer would inherit. He said the union members are asking for an average wage increase of 55 cents an hour.
A spokesman for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said the company is trying to bring the Ottawa workers in line with other contracts it has.
“OLG has made wage and pension proposals which are consistent with the approach taken with all other OLG bargaining units and which have been ratified by 17 OLG bargaining units since 2014, including the OPSEU bargaining unit (security officers) at Rideau Carleton in November of this year,” Tony Bitonti said in an email.
All of those contracts are three-year agreements with no wage increase in the first two years and a 1.75-per-cent increase in the third year.
The workers were locked out Dec. 16. The Slots remain open on a shortened schedule with managers running the operation.
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Ottawa police said one man on the picket line was hit by a car entering the property Wednesday and received minor injuries. The case is still under investigation, and on Thursday there was no decision about possible charges.
Doug Marshall, president of the Union of National Employees, said the man has a hurt knee and is now walking with a cane. He said the man has been advised to rest the leg for a week.
No talks are scheduled, and Marshall said this is because management has set preconditions for getting back to bargaining: agreement to a two-year wage freeze and removal of language in the contract that protects the pension plan.
He said management is trying to make the operation easier to sell by weakening the collective agreement that a new buyer would inherit. He said the union members are asking for an average wage increase of 55 cents an hour.
A spokesman for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said the company is trying to bring the Ottawa workers in line with other contracts it has.
“OLG has made wage and pension proposals which are consistent with the approach taken with all other OLG bargaining units and which have been ratified by 17 OLG bargaining units since 2014, including the OPSEU bargaining unit (security officers) at Rideau Carleton in November of this year,” Tony Bitonti said in an email.
All of those contracts are three-year agreements with no wage increase in the first two years and a 1.75-per-cent increase in the third year.
The workers were locked out Dec. 16. The Slots remain open on a shortened schedule with managers running the operation.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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