Office workers at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery launch strike

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Workplace employees at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery launched a 30-day strike on Tuesday saying they’re pissed off by dragging negotiations with their union.

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“Exercising such a strike mandate is opposite to our mission and our dedication to our prospects,” Éric Dufault, president of the Syndicat des employées de bureau du Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, stated in a press launch.

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“The contemptuous angle of our employer, which maintains a poisonous work ambiance, pushed us to the place we’re and solely a radical change in tradition on its half can persuade us of (the employer’s) good religion.”

The union, which represents 17 staff, has been with out a new contract for 5 years. The union contends the Fabrique Notre-Dame claims it has monetary issues with out backing up the declare and says it doesn’t have a mandate from its board of administrators to come back to an settlement with the union.

The union members unanimously voted for a 30-day strike mandate earlier in September.

The union stated it’s in search of pay hikes for all workplace employees on the cemetery, whose salaries have been frozen for practically six years, with out revealing its precise checklist of calls for.