streik in ontario - die arbeitgeber brauchten es - sieht so

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Construction workers on strike
JAMES RUSK

June 5, 2007

The powerful Laborers' International Union of North America, which represents 25,000 construction workers in Ontario, went on strike yesterday, slowing work on job sites on hundreds of industrial, commercial and institutional projects across the province.

Patrick Little, business manager for LIUNA's Ontario District Council, said that while the union picketed job sites yesterday to mark the start of the strike, it planned to picket for only one day, and then to monitor sites to ensure that contractors do not try to use other workers to do the work that the labourers are entitled to.

The labourers called the strike after two months of bargaining with an employer group - the Provincial Employer Bargaining Agent for the Labourers (PEBAL), which represents five construction industry associations - that Mr. Little insists is dysfunctional and could not agree among its five members.

"There's been a problem. There's an impasse in the employers' room," Mr. Little said.

There had been no serious bargaining since May 8, Mr. Little said, adding that with PEBAL members fighting among themselves, there is not even a wage offer on the table.

Labourers had been working on a range of projects such as a hospital in Belleville and a casino expansion in Windsor. Martin Deeley, a negotiator with the Ontario Masonry Contractors Association, said his association is "just as frustrated as the labourers" with the split in the employers' group.