Contract abides by provincial wage cap
The two-year agreement between the Chignecto-Central District School Board in central and western Nova Scotia and the NSGEU includes the provincially mandated one per cent per year wage increase.
The 630 support staff will also have richer benefit cost sharing of 65 per cent to 35 per cent, up from 55 per cent to 45 per cent. The annual $8,000 Professional Development Fund will be continued.
The 500 bus drivers of the Société de transport de Laval accepted a new agreement that gives them two per cent per year in wage increases and one per cent in a lump sum.
The largest issue for these CUPE members was the health of the pension plan. Contributions increased during the previous agreement and they will again during this one. The city’s contribution rate will go up by one percentage point to nine per cent immediately and the employees’ rate will increase by one percentage point to six per cent now and by a further one per cent in the second year of the agreement.
There is also a supplemental pension plan to which the city is making a one-time contribution of $1 million.
Pension contributions also figure in the agreement between UNITE HERE and the Delta City Centre hotel in Ottawa. By the end of the agreement, they will have increased to 3.25 per cent for the employees and the company, up by 0.5 of a per cent for the hotel and 0.25 for employees.
The hotel’s contribution to employees’ RRSPs also increases 3¢ to 32¢ per hour worked.
Senior ambulance paramedics employed by the Region of Waterloo will benefit from up to three additional vacation days earned in the 31st, 33rd and 35th years of service.
