{"id":5324,"date":"2016-02-02T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fr.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2016-03-03T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:45:31","slug":"olg-refuses-to-withdraw-ultimatum-shows-no-movement-at-bargaining-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=5324","title":{"rendered":"OLG Refuses to Withdraw Ultimatum, Shows No Movement at Bargaining Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLGRefuses.png\" alt=\"OLGRefuses\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLGRefuses.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLGRefuses-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLGRefuses-240x150.png 240w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLGRefuses-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa \u2014 Workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway Slots (RCRS) in Ottawa met with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) management on Friday, January 29 for the first time since they were locked out on December 16, 2015. The workers, represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), were hopeful that OLG would show some flexibility at the bargaining table. However, they were quickly disappointed to learn that OLG remains unwilling to change its last position, insisting that the union concede to its demands on wages and pensions\u2014the two key issues in the dispute\u2014before it will negotiate in any meaningful way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in December, OLG insisted on freezing wages for the first two years of any new contract, and then providing a 1.75% increase for the third year. Workers had rejected this given that they had not received a raise since 2009, even though the cost of living in Ottawa has increased by about 9% in that period. Moreover, the locked out workers are currently paid around 8% <em>less<\/em> than workers doing comparable work at other sites, such as OLG Casino Brantford. At Friday\u2019s meeting, however, OLG continued to insist that the total wage increase for the new three year contract will still be 1.75%.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to the lockout, OLG insisted that workers agree to the removal of pension language from their current contracts. The workers had rejected this then, but on Friday, OLG continued to insist that workers agree to the complete removal of existing pension language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is reprehensible that OLG would ask to meet with the workers again just to try to force the same substandard contract onto them once more,\u201d said Doug Marshall, President of the Union of National Employees, a component union of the PSAC. \u201cThe workers already voted by 96% to reject OLG\u2019s attempts to freeze their wages and remove pension language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne: we will bring this battle to Queen\u2019s Park if her government does not end this shameful attack on OLG workers here in Ottawa,\u201d added Larry Rousseau, Regional Executive Vice President of the PSAC in the National Capital Region. \u201cAnd we will not stop until her government treats these workers with the fairness and respect they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OLG management at the RCRS locked out 124 of its workers on December 16. The workers served in a variety of roles, including as parking attendants, housekeepers, slot attendants, slot technicians, cashiers and money room clerks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa \u2014 Workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway Slots (RCRS) in Ottawa met with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) management on Friday, January 29 for the first time since they were locked out on December 16, 2015. The workers, represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), were hopeful that OLG would show &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=5324\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OLG Refuses to Withdraw Ultimatum, Shows No Movement at Bargaining Table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,12,169,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5331,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}