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system for a itiatives to savings of ent to the Kâ€"W with 15 and have ~p [Labatt‘s begins grim.task: closure announcement two weeks ago, a closureâ€" caseworker has been appointed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union giving them stepâ€" byâ€"step instructions on how to properly gear down. waiting for the inevitable. «:: i In the aftermath of theâ€"brewery‘s November months workers may go through seven mood swings affecting home life and life on the job. As the time to shutdown draws nearer, tempers may flare on the line. As for those who may still be seaching for employment in November, depression will be even higher, considering Christmas is just around the corner. “Itoldtbem,uluwp‘lwntedyoutoknw about this (mood swings).‘ We work together every day and if we‘re barking at each other it might not be for the right reasons," Perchaluk said. He added that employees and their families can use a employee assistance program up until Nov. 15. In meeting with 11 of the 12 union leaders from the other Labatt Brewery Canada plants last week, Perchalukpunllth’endlonthoubleinnnrdl to the separation package and admitted that they Many had believed that the package was the same as that of Molson‘s Brewery (which closed seven plants and merged with Carling O‘Keefe) where each worker received oneâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half weeks‘ pay times the number of years of employment plus a 26 week base rate. Instead, Labatt unionized employâ€" ees will receive one week‘s pay times the number of years of employment. If they were hired before 1988 they would receive another $750 for each year of service. f "I‘m not screaming at the media because I know that there are a lot of plants that close and the workers get nothing." 3 He gave as an example that a unionized employee with 12â€"years seniority will receive $17,000, while a clerk, who‘s nonâ€"unionized, who was also a 12â€"year employee will receive a package of about $55,000. "The management package is much healthier in a of closing Wa Pete Cudtion®" _ The death notice has been issued, the funcral td Rivabe omah o Weeeis we ht byâ€"step instructions on how to properly gear down. It‘s a depressing job, especially in these economic times, and according to Local Union president Jim Perchaluk, it‘s something that has to be done, but he wouldn‘t want to do it. session, Perchaluk knows that during the next six were shocked with what they heard. Farm Thursday & Saturday ;eor round! a.m. â€" mid afternoon Tuesday June 2 â€" Sept. 1 8 a.m. â€" 3 p.m. June 2 â€" September 1 Now you can shop at market o &r.dfiunmsomm khv:Zanuhdlon foods e huge decor & housewares area * quality flea market * pony rides At north edge of Waterloo where Weber meets King 747â€"1830 Tuesday Market! losing Waterloo plant 3 days a week! "The package ($1 million) will be owned by the unionized members and I know their first instinct will be to divide it up amongst the unionized employees. I told them at a recent meeting, if half of you get jobs and half of you don‘t I know exactly what you‘re going to fight. It will be about the package. So, I told them let‘s not do a ...thing with it until we have a few months to analyse what‘s going separation package that was voluntary for the people. The deal was dependent on the antiâ€"comâ€" bimmmi-imincmwmup the offer, it was a oneâ€"time only. When they reduced their marketing people, they never offered that package again," Schmidt added. From the company point of view, says Schmidt, they gave unionized employees a sixâ€"month notice and a package which the union accepted, including the $1 million special support fund to go towards reâ€" ;mammmwmmmuwmn During the past couple of weeks three committees have been formed to consider ideas on â€" how to use the $1 million special support fund for its hourly employees, a job search committee as well as a While Perchaluk‘s ultimate goal is to find jobs for the 147 unionized employees, those who do get rehired by one of the other Labatt plants will not be eligible for severance pay. Employees receiving a severance package won‘t be able to collect Unemployment Insurance until their package has dried up. With many employees receiving less than $10,000, he felt it wouldn‘t take long to evaporate. eanr en nrmascrace He admitted that the Molson/Carling package was a sweet deal, but it was also a oneâ€"time deal and will never be repeated. but there‘s this great big ‘division. This has they have to go back and have membership meetings and tell their members what my package shauge te paokige t nlaim aeay ma t to i can." But according to Waterloo Labatt Brewery Manâ€" ager Tom Schmidt, the nonâ€"union separation packâ€" age information given by Perchaluk is not correct. "I don‘t think those figures are correct, I haven‘t really looked at it that closely. I know that the salary and hourly packages are different. 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