The conflict thickens at the Delpharm pharmaceutical company in Boucherville, with the continuation of the strike by workers who denounce the employer’s inaction in the face of the union offer.
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The employer’s inaction risks jeopardizing the peace of mind of patients across Canada, due to the continued walkout at the manufacturing plant of essential injectable products for healthcare establishments, the union is alarmed. of Teamsters.
The day after the strike called on May 25, the 1999 local union branch of Teamsters Quebec tabled an offer as part of the negotiations for the collective agreement, but it remained unanswered.
Salaries, the pension plan and working hours are the contentious points on which the negotiations are still stumbling and are “in a dead end”, deplores the union section.
“Our understanding was that the new management would invest in the plant and in business development opportunities to ensure its growth,” Michel Héroux, president of the Teamsters Local Union 1999, said in a press release on Tuesday.
“It must be recognized that it is not up to the workers to bear the operating costs, when, moreover, Quebec is in a situation of full employment,” added the president of Teamsters Canada, François Laporte.
The request for conciliation filed by the union with the Ministry of Labor since April has not yielded results, while a negotiation session is scheduled for Friday in the presence of the conciliator of the Administrative Labor Tribunal.
