Training Staff Vote to Ratify First Freely-Negotiated Collective Settlement in a Decade

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TORONTO — Ontario’s lowest-paid training employees have voted to ratify their subsequent collective settlement with the Council of the Trustees’ Associations (CTA) and the provincial authorities.

A complete of 41,559 out of 55,000 frontline CUPE training employees forged ballots, and 30,330 –73% – voted “sure” to simply accept the tentative settlement that was reached by their central bargaining committee on November 20.

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The web ratification vote started Thursday, November 24 and ended Sunday, December 4, with 76% of frontline training employees taking part.

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“My coworkers and I stood as much as the Ford authorities to get a pressured contract off our backs as a part of the repeal of the anti-worker Invoice 28,” stated Laura Walton, academic assistant and president of CUPE’s Ontario Faculty Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU).

“This collective settlement is our first in 10 years to be freely bargained as an alternative of pressured on us with legislative interference,” noticed Walton. “It’s the product of democracy in motion – employees having the liberty to barter and to withdraw our labour if essential.”

“For the final week and a half, 55,000 frontline training employees thought of whether or not the tentative settlement their bargaining committee negotiated is appropriate, and the bulk stated ‘sure,’” Walton defined. “As a result of we stood up for equity and freedom, refusing to be bullied anymore, we ended up with an settlement that’s freed from concessions and we greater than doubled the wage improve the Ford authorities tried to impose on us.”

“To the mother and father who joined us in demanding improved companies for Ontario’s college students: Collectively we now have uncovered this authorities’s appalling observe document of underfunding public training,” Walton concluded. “My coworkers and I’ll by no means cease advocating on your kids. Change isn’t solely gained on the bargaining desk and we’re going to preserve mobilizing with you for higher funding.”

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Contacts

Ken Marciniec
CUPE Communications
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416-803-6066 (cell)

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