Members of Unifor Local 1090 started their demonstrations at Pickering Casino Resort on Saturday, July 23, 2022. With all six entrances of the property being obstructed by picket lines. Following the strike at the employer’s Pickering Casino Resort, another demonstration rally has formed and this time at the company’s Casino Woodbine. It’s a right, not privilege.With Unifor Local 1090 and Great Canadian Gaming Corporation failing to reach an agreement on a new collective agreement, a new picket line has been formed. I do believe anyone can form a union and organize coworkers. They’re work is going un-noticed, essentially, and as long as the casino isn’t struggling from lack of employees, that’s all their management cares about.Įvery time I mention union, they say they’ll be fired on the spot if any union talk ever comes up.Ĭan a sovereign nation threaten to terminate their employees for union talk, and are they allowed to form unions at this casino? They’re short staffed and are in the middle of reconstructing their leadership positions and workforce. They’ve also been promised a raise after their workforce has been “fixed” in a few weeks (AFTER all the OT hours are done and after they’ve already given all their valuable time to their managers and management!). They’ve been working at least 10 hours a day for 6-7 days a week. They like the money but don’t understand that they’re being severely taken advantage of. They force them to work the overtime hours and to them, they just agree to work it. I’m in the IBEW, and finding this out and learning about how their bosses and their higher ups continually take advantage of them, and the good devoted workers, is killing me! I told them that they’re completely wrong for saying and threatening termination for talks of organizing. They told me it’s illegal for them to unionize because this casino is a sovereign casino and it isn’t a state run casino.

I asked them if they ever heard about the benefits of a union, and they told me that they would get fired if anyone ever hinted at unionization.

Of course they receive overtime for all their hours worked. (I’m going to be using they/them to refrain from identifying this person, or persons, as women or men to help protect identities in some way.)

I have a friend that is currently working 10-12 hour days.

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