Wages rise in each year of five-year deal: CUPE
Workers at the qathet Regional District in Powell River, B.C., represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 798, ratified a new five-year collective agreement on March 28.
“Our members were seeking important improvements to make life more affordable and recognize our increasingly complex work. We are pleased that this agreement achieves both of those goals,” said Graham Tonks, CUPE 798 president.
The agreement was negotiated over four days of bargaining and features a two per cent wage increases in the first four years plus a 2.25 per cent wage increase in the final year. It also addresses improvements to health coverage and recognizes the evolving and increasingly skilled work of labourer positions, said the union.
