CN Tower workers ratify tentative agreement, ending 2-week lockout: union

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 7:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Workers astatine the CN Tower person voted to ratify a tentative statement with their employer, ending a lockout that lasted astir 2 weeks, the national representing them says. 

Members of Unifor Local 4271 approved the statement with Canada Lands Company — the national Crown corp that owns and operates the CN Tower — successful a ballot held connected Sunday, according to a Unifor quality release. 

The caller three-year corporate statement includes increases successful wages and improves benefits crossed health, dental and imaginativeness care, the national said. 

Workers who bash not gain gratuities volition spot yearly increases of 4.25 per cent, the national said. Those who bash gain gratuities volition spot a four per cent rise successful the archetypal year, followed by 2.5 per cent increases successful each of the adjacent 2 years. 

Le Café cooks volition additionally person a $1 per hr raise, and inferior attendants volition person 50 cents much per hour, the quality merchandise said. 

The statement besides improves yearly status allowances and the gratuity policy, the quality merchandise said. It includes a committedness to "stabilize hours of operation" and the hiring of a third-party advisor to reappraisal the pension plan, the national said. 

Coverage for proceeding immunodeficiency and information shoes volition beryllium expanded, and the waiting play for part-time employees to entree benefits volition beryllium reduced from 2 years to one.

Unifor Local 4271 represents much than 250 nutrient and beverage workers astatine the CN Tower, including hosts, hold staff, bartenders, chefs, cooks and butchers, the quality merchandise said. 

The national began negotiating with Canada Lands Company successful April. Talks reached a standstill successful precocious June, and workers were locked retired from the CN Tower the time earlier Canada Day. 

Restaurant operations astatine the CN Tower are expected to resume connected Tuesday, the national said.