
Workers at Kruger Kamloops mill ratify ‘standard-setting’ collective agreement
KAMLOOPS — Workers at the Kruger pulp mill in Kamloops have ratified a new four-year collective agreement that will set the pattern for negotiations across the Western Pulp and Paper Caucus.
In a news release issued Thursday (March 6), Unifor says Local 10-B members ratified the new collective agreement with 91 per cent approval. They say it includes improvements to wages and benefits, a Skilled Trades adjustment and zero concessions.
In December, both Unifor as well as the Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC) — the two largest forestry unions in Canada — said the Kamloops mill will set the standard for coordinated bargaining covering 5,500 members from 13 Unifor and five PPWC local unions in B.C. and Alberta.