UPDATED November 10, 2005
Federation’s Press Release On the Recent Labour Relations Board Decision Against Polar Foods
The PEI Federation of Labour considers
the P.E.I. Labour Relations Board ruling that Polar Foods owes $500,000
to a group of 150 former employees who were laid off in 2001 for trying
to form a union not only a victory for those workers but also victory
for all workers on PEI.
To that end, the Prince Edward Island Federation of Labour would like
to congratulate UFCW Local 864 and those former Polar Foods workers in
Beach Point and Souris who worked so hard and fought so long to protect
their basic human right to unionize.
“Polar Foods blatant anti-unionism in this case is reprehensible.
The right to unionize is one of our basic and greatest freedoms and for
a company to layoff workers because they try to exercise this freedom
cannot be tolerated. I am very happy that the Labour Relations Board’s
decision upholds this freedom.” states Carl Pursey, President of the
Prince Edward Island Federation of Labour.
The federation hopes that the Labour Relations Board’s decision in this
case will act as a further deterrent to other companies who would try
to step on their employee’s rights so that no other employees will have
to go through such a hard and long battle to get the justice that is so
rightfully theirs.
We also hope that Ernest and Young will have the decency not to appeal
this decision and allow these workers to finally celebrate their
victory.
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