Timmins area CUPE education workers decry standstill contract negotiations with Catholic school board
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Education workers in the Timmins and Timiskaming areas are calling on the Northeast Catholic District School Board to resume contract negotiations, so that around 160 support workers can receive the $1 wage hike agreed to by the province late last year.
Education workers in the Timmins and Timiskaming areas are calling on the Northeast Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) to resume contract negotiations, so that around 160 support workers can receive the $1 wage hike agreed to by the province late last year.
CUPE Local 4681 president Susan Cyr said the board refused her administrative requests and would only return to the bargaining table on the last day of school.
She said the board has been silent.
“It’s frustrating and disappointing that we still haven’t had any communication from the board or trustees on this matter,” said Cyr.
“I have no idea what would be the point of delaying us until June 23rd. It’s just denying the lowest-paid education workers their rate of pay that they deserve.”
The Ministry of Labour assigned a conciliator on March 24th, with the union’s requests for earlier negotiations going unanswered for over two months.
Along with the retroactive wage hike, the workers want more full-time IT staff, an extra vacation day and equal perks for far north workers in Moosonee.
