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24.03.2022 / 01:35

Former Unifor National President charged with breach of union’s Constitution

An investigation has revealed that the former Unifor National President, Jerry Dias, breached Unifor’s Code of Ethics and Democratic Practices after he accepted a large sum of money from a supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits and then, in turn, encouraged employers of union members to purchase the kits.

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Unifor ex-president Jerry Dias under investigation for breach of constitution

A day after Unifor president Jerry Dias announced his sudden retirement, the union has revealed it has been investigating him since January.

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Unifor investigating ex-president Jerry Dias for alleged breach of constitution

Unifor has launched an investigation into allegations its former national president Jerry Dias engaged in an alleged breach of the union’s constitution.

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Unifor, Canadian Medical Association presidents on the importance of paid sick leave

Unifor President Jerry Dias explains the importance of paid sick leave as Canadians rely on essential workers to get through the pandemic, while Dr.

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Coronavirus: Unifor calls for aviation sector aid on anniversary of travel restrictions in Canada

restrictions on non-essential travel to Canada, union leaders renewed their call for government aid for the country’s struggling aviation sector.In a press conference organized by Unifor, which represents workers in the aviation industry, union leaders said they were frustrated by the government’s lack of action even after many meetings between union and government officials over the last year. Air Canada ready to refund flight cancellations in exchange for bailout: union “We have met with government over a dozen times in the last year_still nothing,” said Jerry Dias, national president of Unifor.

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Unifor says Air Canada will refund flights in exchange for government bailout

According to Unifor president Jerry Dias, Air Canada is willing to give refunds to thousands of its customers, as long as it gets a bailout from the federal government.

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Air Canada to provide refunds in exchange for bailout, union says

The head of Canada’s largest private sector union says air passengers who couldn’t use their tickets because of the pandemic will get refunds. Jerry Dias said Air Canada has already agreed to the refunds, which has been a sore point among consumers starting in March when travellers were forced to stay home.

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Air Canada ready to refund flight cancellations in exchange for bailout: union

Air Canada is poised to refund customers who have had their flights cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19 in exchange for a bailout.

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Union says Windsor, Ont. LTC home failed to provide proper PPE during COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19 outbreak.Unifor, the union representing staff at Fairfield Park long-term care home, said the staff were not provided medical-grade N95 masks, and the mistake was only rectified when the union said it discovered the issue.The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit said there are 87 total cases confirmed at Fairfield Park. 63 residents now dead amid COVID-19 outbreak at Barrie, Ont., nursing home “The pandemic has exposed the chronic and dangerous situations in our nursing homes,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President, in a statement on Thursday.

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Canada’s new travel restrictions a ‘death blow’ to aviation sector: Dias

Unifor National President Jerry Dias, who represents 15,000 workers in the aviation sector, tells Mercedes Stephenson on ‘The West Block’ the federal government has “done nothing” to support that industry through the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked about a potential bailout Dias says, “everybody keeps saying that it’s coming.

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Canada’s new travel restrictions ‘a death blow’ to airlines, UNIFOR president says

coronavirus travel restrictions imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday are “a death blow” to the aviation sector, the national president of the country’s largest private union said.“Everybody understands that governments need to do everything they can to keep Canadians safe, but we also have to make sure that we have industries to come back to when the pandemic is over,” Jerry Dias, Unifor national president, said on Sunday’s episode of The West Block with Global News’ Mercedes Stephenson.“We can’t talk about ‘build back better’ and not have a strong aviation sector and that’s what’s at peril right now.” Canada’s new travel restrictions a ‘nail in the coffin’ for airlines, tourism: experts In an effort to crack down

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Windsor, Ont., PSW died New Year’s Eve due to COVID-19: union

Windsor, Ont., has died due to the coronavirus.Unifor issued a statement Saturday, saying Sheila Yakovishin, who’d worked at Berkshire Care Centre for more than 30 years passed away on New Year’s Eve. She was 60 years old.“On behalf of our union, I express the deepest condolences to Sheila’s family and all those who knew and loved her,” said Unifor national president, Jerry Dias.

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Union representing Canadian auto workers announces new deal with Ford

Unifor says Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd. has agreed to spend nearly $2 billion on its Canadian plants as part of collective bargaining negotiations.Under the tentative deal, Unifor National President Jerry Dias says $1.95 billion will be invested in Ford’s Canadian plants, including $1.8 billion toward the production of five electric vehicles in Oakville, Ont., and an engine contract that could yield new jobs in Windsor, Ont.Dias says the 6,300 union workers at Ford will vote on the deal this weekend.

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Unions will still be ‘picketing and demonstrating’ despite no Labour Day parades due to COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic putting a halt to mass gatherings, John Cartwright of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council says they made the “difficult” decision to cancel this year’s festivities. Labour Day in Toronto 2020: What’s open and closed Cartwright says they have come up with alternative measures to ensure that workers’ rights are celebrated, with a virtual parade that will air on YouTube and Facebook.Meanwhile, Unifor national president Jerry Dias says many of his members will be picketing in support of grocery store workers in Newfoundland.

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Coronavirus outbreak: As long as profit is being made in senior care, that care will be restricted: Unifor president

Unifor National President Jerry Dias tells Mercedes Stephenson personal care workers in long-term care homes are underpaid, saying it’s time governments wake up and ensure those workers are given full-time work with benefits which will benefit senior care.

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PSW with Toronto’s Access Independent Living Services dies after being exposed to coronavirus: union

The union representing staff at Access Independent Living Services in Toronto says a personal support worker (PSW) has died after testing positive for coronavirus, calling his case a “preventable workplace exposure to COVID-19.”

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Coronavirus: Hospital cleaners, admins workers need PPE too, unions say

Canada is scrambling to secure and deliver protective equipment for health-care workers battling the COVID-19 crisis. But once those masks and gloves arrive on the front line, some are worried they won’t be entitled to them.

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Unifor accepts recommendations from mediator in Co-op lockout

The lockout at the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina, Sask., could soon be over, if Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) accepts the recommendations put forward by the independent mediator.

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