“The 200 service employees at Roberta Place voted to leave SEIU to join CLAC in 2015. During the process of changing unions, we were never without collective agreement protection. When we voted to change unions, the collective agreement was frozen in place by the Ontario Labour Relations Act, and the employer was prohibited from changing any of our collective agreement terms and conditions.
“CLAC negotiated a new collective agreement using the old SEIU agreement as the starting point. Our membership presented proposals of changes we wanted made and voted to approve the new CLAC collective agreement when negotiations were finished.
“A majority of the employees at Roberta Place had high seniority and would never have supported a change of unions if we would have lost our collective agreement protection.”
Andrea Damas, PSW, Roberta Place
The Freeze Provision Explained
