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Community Support Centre NW workers in Dryden have a new three-year contract.

There are plans to make a new kind of wood product at a mothballed plant in northern Ontario. A mill near Wawa is set to be converted to manufacturing wooden siding. It's a sign that the northern forest industry is diversifying away from the ups and downs of the lumber market. 

Unionized workers at West Fraser Timber in Barwick have ratified a new four-year deal. The 150 members of Unif...

Over 450 Unifor members in Dryden have voted overwhelmingly in favour of three new contracts with Domtar. Abou...

Unifor has reached a tentative deal with over 150 workers at the Ear Falls Sawmill. The contract affects maint...

Timber company set to pay their employees to get COVID-19 jab Staff and contractors for a national timber corporation are set to receive a new kind of bonus; one that will hopefully arrive long before the new year: a COVID-19 vaccine bonus. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: May 10, 2021 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 10 EACOM Timber Corporation, which owns nine sawmills and two manufacturing plants across northern Ontario and Quebec, is offering its staff and contractors $200 to receive thei...

Municipal workers in Ear Falls have a new contract. The Unifor members have voted 100% in favor of the four-year deal that impacts 15 inside and outside workers employed with the Township. Highlights include a 9% wage hike over the life of the contract, new $1,000 orthodontic coverage, a $50 increase in annual boot allowance, $25 in vision care, as well as a hike in daily meal allowance. Local union national representative Stephen Boon says they were pleased to participate in another respectful...

Unifor Submission Municipal workers in Ear Falls have a new contract. The Unifor members have voted 100% in favour of the four-year deal that impacts 15 inside and outside workers employed with the Township. Highlights include a 9% wage hike over the life of the contract, new $1,000 orthodontic coverage, $50 increase in annual boot allowance, $25 in vision care, as well as a hike in daily meal allowance. Local union national representative Stephen Boon says they were pleased to participate in a...

Away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. >> solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out riveras burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. >> john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. i handed hip the fire extinguisher. >> i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled the pin and started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i seen that the fire was out on him, i dont know what made me go over t...

Legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. >> john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out.