Dozens of cleaners, including workers at Abbotsford International Airport, may be going on strike. The cleaners, members of the SEIU, are employed by the cleaning contractor, Dexterra Group.
* 21.3% increase in wages over two years * Strong protection against sub-contracting * wage protection language against inflation * improvements to the workers’ pension plan and more!
First Central Bargaining Contract Negotiations to win much needed improvements – cost of living wage increases, improved benefits, a pension plan, better health & safety measures, and job security!
After over 450 Bee Clean Building Maintenance janitors unionize at the end of 2022, cleaners at Okanagan Correctional Centre follow in their footsteps.
“Joining the union was an easy decision for me,” says Praveen Parmar, who has been a cleaner since 2004 and in the same building for almost a decade.