SEIU Clerical staff was just about on their way to be locked-out April 15th 2010 at 4:00pm. It was planned that they were to hand in they keys and passes to the head office of SEIU due to negotiation break down.

The Clerical Staff were bargaining for a comfortable pay increase and pension issues which, seemed to be unrealistic to their employer SEIU.

But, I did learn that both parties were able to agree to set a date to go back to the table which, postponed the lock-out April 15th. Some are confident a strike would not take place and replacement workers would not be called in as was planned by SEIU. (HUMM replacement workers by the union, that doesn't sound right).

I'm still not sure how a union could come into an agreement with employers of their members and at the same time are treating their workers with the same mentality conviction where they too must be governed by a collective agreement to keep them from exploiting their own workers!!

So, as for the Clerical Staff of SEIU...Will they get what they feel is fair? Well only the finished product of a collective agreement will tell. Let us not forget all the other issues members have with that little booklet that even some employers/managers of members are dumbfounded on what transpired into the collective agreement for the workers and are now bound to...Such things as travel time vs. mileage, benefits, wage increase, sick days, vacation time, stat holidays and yad,yad,yad!