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The future Leamington District Secondary School at Oak Street West is taking shape as the construction process progresses following an official groundbreaking ceremony from late May of this year. The architectural design of the building was conducted by Glos Associates Inc. while the general contractor overseeing the build is Rosati Construction Ltd. The $32 million school is slated for completion in time for the start of the 2017-18 school year. The current LDSS on Talbot Street West was built in 1953 to replace the structure built across the street 30 years earlier. (SUN Photo)
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By Bryan Jessop Representatives and supporters of CUPE Local 2974 made it known that they are “sick” and tired of the lack of progress in the ongoing strike against the Essex County Library board. Well over 100 CUPE members from across the province converged along
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the front of the Leamington branch of the Essex County Library in a gesture of solidarity with the 58 employees who at the time reached Day 68 in the strike. Those who attended included CUPE national president Mark Hancock, CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn, Local 2974 unit chairperson
Lori Wightman, WindsorTecumseh MPP Percy Hatfield and Windsor West MPP Lisa Gretzky. Other NDP supporters for similar CUPE events have included Essex MPP Taras Natyshak and Essex MP Tracey Ramsey. The Wednesday, Aug. 31 rally in Leamington began at the library on the corner of
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John Street and Erie Street North and proceeded with a seven-minute march to the municipal office directly north. The large gathering of CUPE representatives filed into the building’s main lobby and shouted a series of chants, including one demanding a conference with Leamington mayor John Pa-
terson, who was not present at the group’s time of arrival. Hancock, Hahn and a small group of others were permitted a brief meeting with acting municipal CAO Robert Sharon and director of legal services Ruth Orton. Negotiators with CUPE and the library board have not been at the bargaining table since Monday, Aug. 8, more than three weeks prior to the rally in Leamington. The strike took effect June 25 as a result of the board’s intention to alter Essex County Library employees’ sick leave benefits with stipulations that would leave about one-third of workers without compensation for work days missed because of illness. Change to short term disability benefits is the other item of contention that fueled the strike. “It took until Day 45 (of the strike) before the board even realized that a third of the employees wouldn’t qualify for the short-term plan they’ve proposed,” said Wightman. “The whole thing is ridiculous.” Hahn noted that there have been no problems relating (Continued on Page 2)
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