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August 6, 2008
Teamster Local 213 workers sign four-year contract with Tree Island Industries
Richmond B.C.
A new collective agreement has been signed between Tree Island Industries Ltd and Teamster Local 213 to operate a manufacturing plant in Richmond, B.C.
The agreement covers 295 hourly employees and was concluded after 77 per cent of the unionized employees voted for ratification.
The new collective bargaining agreement is retroactive to July 1, 2008 and has a four-year term ending June 30, 2012.
“We are pleased to have reached a balanced, long-term agreement with the Teamsters,” said Daniel McAtee, president and CEO of Tree Island Industries.
The company produces wire products for a diverse range of construction, agricultural, manufacturing and industrial applications.
The company is owned by Tree Island Wire Income Fund.
ZALAKOMAR, HUNGARY
Children have been recruited to carry out work on a Hungarian motorway construction site, said local paper Zalai Hirlap, the Budapest Times reports.
Several school-age children are engaged in work on a section of the M7 motorway between Zalakomar and Nagykanizsa, said the paper.
According to information provided to the paper by a father from Zalakomar, a local man is going round recruiting kids to work for around 2,000 forints ($14) a day.
The man’s story was corroborated by the village notary, Karoly Ronto.
He told the paper that ever since work started on the motorway section, lots of people had been moving to the village from nearby localities to take up menial work at the site. JOC News Service
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