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Published on: 10/15/2009
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Paul Dalglish, managing director for Serco DES, the provider of driver examinations in Ontario, said right now both sides are waiting for the mediator.
He said one of the outstanding issues is job security.
Dalglish said there's concern about supervisors doing bargaining work, but the company has a lot of small offices where supervisors are among six employees.
If there's a lineup of people and everyone is serving them, but there's a supervisor behind a desk doing paperwork and can't help . . . well that's a ridiculous model, which might work in a big steel plant," he said.
We've agreed supervisors wouldn't do work that would cause layoffs."
Dalglish said an offer was tabled Oct. 8.
Both parties met with a mediator Friday and were told to step down."
He said an employee meeting was held Tuesday.
Calls to the United Steelworkers Union, representing the striking employees, were not immediately returned.
We've already agreed on a long list of things, but their list of demands has increased since they've been out on strike."
Dalglish wouldn't speculate as to when he thinks the DriveTest centres may reopen.
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Dalglish is again missleading the press for his own gain and to garner the public against the union.
The issue of non-bargaining employees(supervisors) is that they are REGULARLY scheduled to do bargaining unit(employee) work due to laqck of supervisory duties.
We HAVE agreed to supervisors doing the work in the situation Dalglish points out.
In fact we tabled an offer to the company including that very subject (section 37.6).
Come on Dalglish, how about we stop doing this in the press and sit across the table.