Crossley Carpet agreement reached

Published on August 10, 2012; Published on August 10, 2012

Topics :: Tandus

TRURO - More than 200 employees at Crossley Carpet have signed a new three-year deal with their employer - Tandus Inc.

The agreement was ratified on Thursday with a vote of 74.2 per cent of the CAW Local 4612's 213 employees.

Negotiations started in April and lasted nine days over a course of three months.

The employees were given the new terms of their collective agreement during a three-hour meeting.

"Wages, benefits and pensions, job security - they were all major issues in these negotiations," said Emma Campbell, recording secretary for the employees' negotiating committee.

"There was a little bit of give and take by both sides all the way through, but we feel we worked out a really good deal. The committee felt strongly that if we recommended the deal (the workers) would accept it."

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Terry Sutton

- August 12, 2012 at 07:54:15

Proof that the media will present the story as they wish, or someone else wishes, not necessarily including the facts or the truth!

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Gordon McDonald

- August 11, 2012 at 12:27:43

Just a correction to the article "Crossley Carpet agreement reached". Out of Crossley's 213 unionized employees only 128 voted at the ratification meeting, with 95 people (74.2% of those who voted) voting to accept. I think it is important that people know actual numbers so they understand that less then 50% of total employees decided for them.

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