Some LifeLabs employees are getting ready for a possible strike.
Couriers figuring out of places in Kitchener could also be impacted by the job motion if a deal can’t be reached by Saturday.
In a information launch, the Ontario Public Service Staff Union (OPSEU) mentioned 25 native couriers could possibly be strolling the picket line on Tuesday.
Different couriers and mail room clerks in Toronto, Mississauga, Peel, Oshawa, Durham, Halton, York and Vaughan would even be concerned.
The union mentioned the primary subject entails a scarcity of reliable futures.
“LifeLabs is a billion-dollar, for-profit firm that will get tens of millions of our public well being care {dollars},” OPSEU President J.P. Hornick mentioned within the launch. “It will possibly completely afford to deal with employees pretty – but even full-time employees are struggling to pay hire as a number of the lowest paid workers within the firm. How are you supposed to maintain up with the price of residing when your hire hike is larger than your wage improve?”
President of Native 298, the union serving Kitchener workers, mentioned members really feel like they’re being pushed out as the corporate contracts work out to third-party companies.
“Now we have skilled couriers and mail clerks in-house that carefully observe protocols round secure dealing with and transport of take a look at specimens to protect the integrity of the pattern,” Ted Rietveld, president of OPSEU Native 298 mentioned. “However the firm has no points recruiting company employees and handing them a LifeLabs t-shirt so the general public cannot inform the distinction.”
In an e-mail on Thursday, LifeLabs mentioned they’re at present negotiating the renewal of the collective bargaining settlement for couriers and dispatch coordinators within the GTA and Kitchener.
“We remain committed to working to achieve a reasonable, responsible, and sustainable agreement.”
“In the event of a strike, LifeLabs will take all possible actions to minimize disruption to customers and healthcare providers. We will implement a business continuity plan to ensure that we can continue to provide Ontarians with access to important health care services. Patient Services Centres will remain open, and laboratories will continue to function as usual.”
