Technical staff at Montreal daily
vote
100% for 3-year deal
Montreal Newspaper Guild | CWA Canada
Local 30111
The seven employees who work in the
electronic data processing department at The
Gazette in Montreal have voted 100 per cent in favour of ratifying
a new collective agreement.
David Wilson, CWA Canada staff representative, says
the tentative agreement was reached after only two
bargaining sessions.
The three-year deal will see wages increase by 2.5
per cent this year (retroactive to March 3), 2.5 per
cent next year and 3.0 per cent in the final year of
the agreement.
Three technical service co-ordinators,
however, will receive a 7.5-per-cent bump-up in the
first year. Why? "Because
they deserved it," says Wilson matter-of-factly.
He notes this wasn't a controversial collective agreement
for the CanWest-owned newspaper and it was mostly a
lot of cleanup in language.