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Only through unionization do we as employees have the power to bargain collectively with management.

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Why are CMHC employees taking steps to unionize?

THE RIGHT TO BARGAIN

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) employees continue to feel uncertainty related to changes and cutbacks we’ve experienced at work with no meaningful consideration to how we are impacted.

The new government’s housing platform committed to moving CMHC’s housing programs to a new entity, meaning we could once again be facing massive layoffs and forced “secondments”. CMHC has gone through several large-scale layoffs over the past decade. Entire teams have been cut with no notice, and the news has been delivered inhumanely by mass email or group conference call.

Only through unionization do we as employees have the power to bargain collectively with management. Without a union to give us a voice, our employer may speak to us in town hall meetings, but they have no obligation to bargain with us.

ACCOUNTABILITY

CMHC’s new leadership is systematically stripping employee benefits and creating a work environment that is hostile to employees. Leadership has abandoned a results-oriented work environment for one based on arbitrary micro-management, including individual employee surveillance. Benefits, including vacation for new employees, are being clawed back.

Joining a union allows us to stand up to management. It gives us a voice to bargain for the terms and conditions of our employment. Our working conditions will be covered by a collective agreement and collective agreements are upheld by the law.

– CMHC Employee, 13 years of service CHMC Employee

We’ve seen tough times at CMHC, such as forced secondments and layoffs announcements that left hundreds of our colleagues with no options. I want a union at CMHC so that we don’t have to deal with our employer alone. Having a union means we face our employer together. Together we are stronger, and together, we’ll be respected.

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