May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min · 47 segments
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Jim LockeGuestgood morning brian
not too bad i'm a trades worker too now with the department of transportation and infrastructure i'm electrician a
sure
and i'm calling on minister barry penn and finance minister craig party to correct this wrong now that they've created in our workplace hey basically they are giving a market factor adjustment of 24 000 annually to the mechanics Heavy equipment operators are getting $14,600 annually.
All the other trades, like myself, you know what I mean, electrician, welders, power engineers, carpenters, are getting nothing, eh? So, look, basically, my take is we are all trades workers.
We were always paid equally, and basically what the government is doing now is they're tearing us apart, eh, by doing this.
Well, yeah, that's what happens when you have those disparities in the workplace.
Definitely.
And I would also like to basically put a call out to our new president, Jerry Earl, to speak on our behalf on this issue.
Look, I'm after calling our reps and basically the last couple of years now, or last year and a half, basically keeping quiet, getting the run around, trying to deal with it the appropriate way.
But basically we're being told basically to keep quiet.
Yeah, we have a call in to Jerry on this, Jerry Earl with the NAEP, because of the calls, similar to this one, as you know, that we've had over the last few days about this, the difference in the shop for Transportation Works.
And as we had a caller yesterday notice, it goes beyond just transportation and the roads.
It goes into every aspect of infrastructure with the provincial government, whether you have welders or others working in the same place and making significantly different amounts of money.
And that's one thing, but then they have these top-ups, and some get them and some don't.
It does kind of ring kind of odd to me that several of these employees, such as yourself, are bypassing the union and coming right to open line and calling on the ministers.
I would, too, to find out what they're doing, because there has been suggestion by some of the callers, such as yours on the same subject this week, that they're not getting the support they want from the union.
Yes, definitely.
Like you said, I'm to a very high frustrated point basically because like you said, we're in the collective bargaining now as a trades worker.
And basically, like you said, we got the same people in our bargaining group with MOS.
good morning brian
not too bad i'm a trades worker too now with the department of transportation and infrastructure i'm electrician a
sure
and i'm calling on minister barry penn and finance minister craig party to correct this wrong now that they've created in our workplace hey basically they are giving a market factor adjustment of 24 000 annually to the mechanics Heavy equipment operators are getting $14,600 annually.
All the other trades, like myself, you know what I mean, electrician, welders, power engineers, carpenters, are getting nothing, eh? So, look, basically, my take is we are all trades workers.
We were always paid equally, and basically what the government is doing now is they're tearing us apart, eh, by doing this.
Well, yeah, that's what happens when you have those disparities in the workplace.
Definitely.
And I would also like to basically put a call out to our new president, Jerry Earl, to speak on our behalf on this issue.
Look, I'm after calling our reps and basically the last couple of years now, or last year and a half, basically keeping quiet, getting the run around, trying to deal with it the appropriate way.
But basically we're being told basically to keep quiet.
Yeah, we have a call in to Jerry on this, Jerry Earl with the NAEP, because of the calls, similar to this one, as you know, that we've had over the last few days about this, the difference in the shop for Transportation Works.
And as we had a caller yesterday notice, it goes beyond just transportation and the roads.
It goes into every aspect of infrastructure with the provincial government, whether you have welders or others working in the same place and making significantly different amounts of money.
And that's one thing, but then they have these top-ups, and some get them and some don't.
It does kind of ring kind of odd to me that several of these employees, such as yourself, are bypassing the union and coming right to open line and calling on the ministers.
I would, too, to find out what they're doing, because there has been suggestion by some of the callers, such as yours on the same subject this week, that they're not getting the support they want from the union.
Yes, definitely.
Like you said, I'm to a very high frustrated point basically because like you said, we're in the collective bargaining now as a trades worker.
And basically, like you said, we got the same people in our bargaining group with MOS.
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