Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Yearly Wage Gains for Vedder Transport Employees with New Contract Locals Local 66 Ratifications Sectors Transportation and Warehousing Abbotsford, BC—Employees of Vedder Transport Ltd., based in Abbotsford, voted in favour of ratifying a three-year collective agreement providing them with yearly wage increases and other improvements. The 162 employees are represented by Transport, Marine, Warehousing, and Allied Workers Union, CLAC Local 66. The union has represented the company’s employees since September 1993. The new contract provides employees with wage increases ranging from 4.5 to 9.4 percent in the first year. Wage reviews will be conducted for the second and third years, with wage increases ranging between three to five percent each year guaranteed. Employees will also receive a large increase to employer contributions to their RRSPs. Several changes to contract language will provide improvements for employees. “We’re pleased to secure yearly wage gains for our members,” says Jeremy Thompson, CLAC representative. “The union bargaining committee did a good job identifying members’ concerns and bringing them to the negotiating table.” You might be interested in Holding on to Resentment Is Harmful—Learn to Let It Go 20 May 2025 Workplace Lessons We Can Learn from Chess 16 May 2025 RVilla Caledonia Retirement Living Employees Unanimously Ratify New Contract 15 May 2025 Using Technology to Further the Cause of Progressive Trade Unionism 15 May 2025