Tag: Unifor Local 707

Travel Questions

January 3, 2022, Sisters and Brothers, As we begin the year and members and retired members are looking to make travel arrangements, please keep up to date with Green Shield and the Green Shield website to know what you are covered with in the event of any incident while out of the province. CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) […]

International Women’s Day March 8

International Women’s Day – Monday March 8, 2021 Happy IWD! Today, Monday March 8, 2021 marks International Women’s Day . A day that is recognized all over the world to celebrated the achievements of women and rally together for gender equality. First celebrated in 1911, International Women’s Day (IWD) is an opportunity to celebrate women […]

Women’s Committee Report – Pink Shirt Day

PINK SHIRT DAY Bullying is everywhere, workplaces, schools, homes, internet ect…we wear pink on “pink shirt day” to raise awareness and educate people that this is NOT ok.  We are all different, we all have different opinions, perspectives and experiences.  BE KIND #lifteachotherup “David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest […]

Presidents Message- Unexpected Production Lay-off

Brothers and Sisters, In addition to the one week lay-off that was already announced for the week beginning Monday March 1st 2021, late today the company announced that they would be suspending production effective Monday February 22nd 2021. This is due to unusual and extreme weather conditions in the southern United States that have resulted […]

MEMBER ENGAGEMENT SHIRTS and NEW UNION SHOP.

As part of our ongoing aim of making things easier for our members … especially in the middle of a world-wide pandemic, we have set up an online store through our unionized online support team at Union Marketing. 707shop.ca is our new online store. It is not being run at the local union hall but […]

Moving? Moved? Update address TODAY

As we are now in to tax season, many of you will be noticing that your T4’s will be arriving via mail similar to paycheques during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have not been receiving your stubs in the mail, you more than likely have not kept the company up to date as to your […]

President’s Message-Production Resumes at Oakville Assembly Complex-February 8th 2021

Thursday February 4, 2021 Brothers and Sisters, The company has announced that production at the Oakville Assembly Complex will resume on Monday, February 8th, 2021. They have indicated they will be updating our membership of the return to work and start times with a robo-call, within the next 24 hours. Departmental, shift scheduled start times […]

STRIKE TARGET SELECTED- Ford Bargaining Unit Selected

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=753023152207419&ref=notif&notif_id=1599577265898263&notif_t=live_video This morning at 11am, Unifor National President Jerry Dias, along with the Bargaining Committee Chairpersons from Ford, GM and FCA took to the stage to announce the target for the Auto Talks 2020. The Bargaining Unit from Ford will be the first to go to set the pattern for 2020. Now the hard work […]

STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE – SUNDAY AUGUST 30th

The Strike Authorization Vote is your opportunity to let the company know that you are supporting your bargaining committee to get the best possible agreement from the company that will benefit us moving forward. It also shows that we will be ready and willing to strike if the bargaining unit is unable to get the […]

Civil Rights Movement 2020

This Friday, July 31, 2020 you may notice that there are members in the plant wearing black t-shirts that say “2020 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT” to show support for the eradication of systemic racism. This is being held a day before Emancipation Day that falls on August 1 in recognition of the day that slavery was […]