Deal includes wage increases, better benefits
Approximately 80 workers at Keystone Child, Youth and Family Services — members of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 295 — have ratified their first collective agreement.
Workers with Keystone, which is located in Ontario’s Bruce and Grey counties, became members of OPSEU in December 2014.
The three-year contract — spanning 2015 to 2017 — includes annual wage increases, benefit gains, on-call language, improved layoff language and mileage increases, according to the union.
"Our membership had voted to have a voice in the workplace, and by seeing it through, we ended up with substantial gains," said Diane Liska, OPSEU local president.
Keystone is a non-profit prevention and counselling agency. Since 1974, it has provided a wide variety of counselling and residential services for children, youth, and families in Grey and Bruce.
