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The union representing the locked out Rideau Carleton Raceway OLG Slots staff is concerned Ontario Lottery Corporation management is more focused on hiring replacement workers than resolving the ongoing labour dispute.
The 124 workers were locked out on Dec. 16 after they overwhelmingly refused to accept OLG’s latest offer, which limited wage increases to 1.75 per cent each year over a three year contract, and also sought to remove existing pension language from the current collective agreement. The union is asking for wage increases of three per cent per year to catch up with the increased cost of living.
According to a Public Service Alliance of Canada release, which represents the locked out workers, the Slots’ revenue has decreased by $1 million in the latest quarter since the dispute, in part because of reduced hours the slots are able to be open.
“It appears that by refusing the workers’ very reasonable wage demands and locking them out, OLG has ended up losing five times as much in lower revenue during the lucrative holiday season at the end of the year,” said Larry Rousseau, PSAC’s regional executive vice president in Ottawa-Gatineau.
“The lockout was a really poor decision on OLG’s part — it reduced the slots’ hours of operation by 50 per cent. And I think we’ll see the full impact when we get the numbers for the current quarter, which ends in March.”
Raceway management has started the process of hiring replacement workers on four-month contracts, with eleven positions posted to the OLG’s hiring website in late February, according to the release.
“Hiring these scabs on four month terms sends the message to the workers that OLG intends to keep them out at least until July,” said Doug Marshall, President of the Union of National Employees, a component union of PSAC.
The Citizen reached out to OLG for comment but had not heard back by late Thursday afternoon.
In January, Nepean-Carleton Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod organized a rally in Ottawa to address the “massive disparity” in salaries between Raceway employees and those in other OLG facilities such as Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, where employees earn 4.5 per cent more than workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway.
Alroy Fonseca, a spokesperson for PSAC, confirmed the two sides met at the bargaining table shortly after that rally but the meeting lasted only half an hour before it “fell apart.”
Now the members are ramping up their efforts by travelling to Toronto by bus on March 9 to hold a rally at Queen’s Park.
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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The 124 workers were locked out on Dec. 16 after they overwhelmingly refused to accept OLG’s latest offer, which limited wage increases to 1.75 per cent each year over a three year contract, and also sought to remove existing pension language from the current collective agreement. The union is asking for wage increases of three per cent per year to catch up with the increased cost of living.
According to a Public Service Alliance of Canada release, which represents the locked out workers, the Slots’ revenue has decreased by $1 million in the latest quarter since the dispute, in part because of reduced hours the slots are able to be open.
“It appears that by refusing the workers’ very reasonable wage demands and locking them out, OLG has ended up losing five times as much in lower revenue during the lucrative holiday season at the end of the year,” said Larry Rousseau, PSAC’s regional executive vice president in Ottawa-Gatineau.
“The lockout was a really poor decision on OLG’s part — it reduced the slots’ hours of operation by 50 per cent. And I think we’ll see the full impact when we get the numbers for the current quarter, which ends in March.”
Raceway management has started the process of hiring replacement workers on four-month contracts, with eleven positions posted to the OLG’s hiring website in late February, according to the release.
“Hiring these scabs on four month terms sends the message to the workers that OLG intends to keep them out at least until July,” said Doug Marshall, President of the Union of National Employees, a component union of PSAC.
The Citizen reached out to OLG for comment but had not heard back by late Thursday afternoon.
In January, Nepean-Carleton Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod organized a rally in Ottawa to address the “massive disparity” in salaries between Raceway employees and those in other OLG facilities such as Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, where employees earn 4.5 per cent more than workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway.
Alroy Fonseca, a spokesperson for PSAC, confirmed the two sides met at the bargaining table shortly after that rally but the meeting lasted only half an hour before it “fell apart.”
Now the members are ramping up their efforts by travelling to Toronto by bus on March 9 to hold a rally at Queen’s Park.
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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