Unifor says that DHL Express Canada locked workers just after midnight on Sunday, since the two parties failed to reach a contract, injecting more labor agitation in the country’s package delivery market.
The union, which represents 2,100 truck drivers, mails and warehouse workers in seven provinces, says they became a strike in response to 11 am et.
Unifor says that the German property carrier is proposing to change the driver’s payment system and plan to use replacement workers before the legislation that the Prohíba will enter into force on June 20.
DHL Express says that he delivered the arrest warning on Thursday and that Unifor advised a strike the next day.
In a statement sent by spokeswoman Pamela Duque Rai, the company said the new payment system is “designed to address changes in economic viability and the operational structure of the Canadian market.”
He said he had proposed a salary increase of 15 percent for five years, with an increase of five percent in the first year of a new contract.
“Unfortunately, there simply there was not enough progress to result in a new collective agreement,” said the statement.
The work arrest, which affects the delivery of packages throughout the country, occurs when the Canada post remains in Loggerheads with 55,000 workers, whose union last month imposed an extra prohibition of extra time that scale plot services.
Unifor says that a work strike could interrupt the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One next weekend in Montreal, where DHL is responsible for transporting turbocharged career cars.
Unifor says that their negotiation priorities remain wages, working conditions and surveillance and automation in the workplace.
