Deal would end in 2019
Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will soon be voting on a tentative contract extension reached in talks with the provincial government, said the union.
Local leaders met in Toronto last week to discuss the outcome of those talks, and they agreed to present the tentative extension to members across the province. Ratification votes will be held in the weeks to come, according to the union.
No details of the tentative extension will be released until CUPE members have had an opportunity to review and vote. If ratified, the deal would extend current collective agreements to Aug. 31, 2019.
CUPE will have no further comment on the talks or the tentative extension until members have had an opportunity to review the settlement and vote, said the union.
55,000 CUPE members in the school board sector work as educational assistants (EAs), custodians, office administrators, early childhood educators (ECEs), tradespeople, instructors, library technicians, speech pathologists, IT specialists and in many other job classifications.
