Union workers to vote on Bell Aliant offer this week

TORONTO – Following months of collective bargaining, members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union who work at Bell Aliant are voting on their employer’s latest contract offer this week. The union says in a press release it is concerned by what CEP’s Ontario administrative vice-president Barb Dolan calls Bell Aliant’s “disturbing lack of equity”. “Despite record profits, Bell Aliant is refusing to pay its office employees, who are mostly women, at the same rate of pay as its mostly male technicians,” says Dolan in a press release issue by CEP. CEP’s executive vice-president, Quebec, Michel Ouimet, says, “Nowadays, it is...