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Cadillac Fairview: Where was the labour movement?

CEP members walk the picket line, with supporters from UNITE-HERE. Photo: Pance Stojkovski

After a conflict that stretched over almost nine months, the maintenance and skilled trades workers of the Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 2003 -- affectionately known as the CF61 -- voted to accept an offer from real estate developer Cadillac Fairview on March 5, 2010.

The victory was bittersweet. On the one hand, the Cadillac Fairview workers, who work in office towers in downtown Toronto, had forced an arrogant corporation to return to the table and to do so with a substantially improved severance offer. On the other, the workers went through hell to get there and at the end of the day the jobs and the bargaining unit were lost.

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Unions hold solidarity rally for ‘Cadillac Fairview 61’ workers

By John Bonnar

| November 14, 2009

Unions from across Ontario rallied Thursday outside the Toronto Dominion Centre to pressure Cadillac Fairview and its owner, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, to negotiate a fair settlement with CEP Local 2003.

Known as the 'Cadillac Fairview 61', CEP Local 2003 members were locked out by corporate giant Cadillac Fairview in June. “Since then, Cadillac Fairview has 'terminated' the workers and attempted to use a 'third-party service provider' to handle maintenance and skilled trade duties at TD Centre,” said the Cadillac Fairview 61 in a written release.

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