Two labour unions head to a hearing this week in Thunder Bay in their dispute with AbitibiBowater over the interpretation of an agreement signed four years ago by mill workers in Fort Frances.
Brian Short of the International Association of Machinists Union says the company is trying to impose a new pension plan which he says, contravenes the deal signed in 2007.
"A new pension plan is excluded from being carried over unless the unions want to open up the issue for bargaining," says Short. "It is the position of the I.A.M and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that we do not want to open the issue of pensions."
Short says all sides agreed to a moratorium on pensions until 2014.
