Villa Marconi Engaged in Union Busting as Agency Staff Are Hired to Fill Union Positions

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The union representing staff at Ottawa’s Villa Marconi are calling out their employer’s union busting tactics after discovering agency staff filling in for laid off union members. Members in the laundry department were unceremoniously laid off by management in June, leaving the department short-staffed and under resourced. “We are seeing the same mistakes all over again,” said Andrea Werlen, Recording Secretary for CUPE 4739. “Our employer has been refusing to