Paccar locks out 850 employees in Ste-Thérèse

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CBC News / November 30, 2014

Paccar's Ste-Thérèse truck manufacturing plant has locked out its 850 employees amid stalled negotiations with the workers’ union.

On Saturday afternoon Paccar warned employees it would lock them out at midnight, citing a "no contract, no work" policy.

The workers’ collective agreement expired at 11:59 p.m. Saturday.

The company tabled its final offer on Saturday afternoon, according to The Canadian Press.

The union's negotiating committee called for an assembly on Sunday morning to deliberate on it.

However, Paccar did not move the lockout deadline to allow the union to consider the offer.

Seventy-six per cent of employees voted on Sunday to reject the offer.

According to a news release issued by the union, Unifor-Québec, contract negotiations have been underway for the past two months.

In 2001, the then-union president locked himself in an office with 70 litres of water and went on a hunger strike to denounce what he called abusive workplace practices.

Paccar, a U.S.-based company, last locked out all of its Ste-Thérèse employees in 2004.

[james j neiweem]

Here is another opportunity for the union workers to shoot themselves in the foot. Close the factory and move to Mexico.

[Mackpro]

Good!