{"id":31382,"date":"2024-11-24T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=31382"},"modified":"2024-11-24T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:06:21","slug":"iam-canada-iam-local-2797-votes-massively-in-favour-of-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/?p=31382","title":{"rendered":"IAM Canada &#8211; IAM Local 2797 votes massively in favour of new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Halifax, NS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU) workers in IAM Local 2797 have just ratified a three-year contract with a 92 percent margin in favour of the agreement. \u201cBargaining took place over a long period, and we were faced with challenges as we entered conciliation. Our elected bargaining committee did a fantastic job bringing the members needs to the forefront.\u201d Matt Barnable, GLR.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the new agreement include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>language that provides for union orientation with all new members up to 2 hours with no loss of pay to educate our members on their rights and on the IAM<\/li>\n<li>enhanced job posting language and job posting grievance language<\/li>\n<li>increased premiums and meal allowance<\/li>\n<li>improved electric vehicle incentive payment<\/li>\n<li>$1500 signing bonus<\/li>\n<li>improved health and optometric benefits<\/li>\n<li>wage increases of a minimum of 9.5 % over three years for the servicing group and a minimum of 13.4% for administrative classifications (inclusive of new top wage rate for admin classification) with a \u201cme too\u201d clause with civil services<\/li>\n<li>a one-time pay out of the lieu days bank for servicing staff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time I have had the opportunity of negotiating our collecting bargaining agreement. I\u2019m really proud of the team we had at the table and the gains we achieved, especially how we were able to address the gap in wages for the Administrative Staff in the bargaining unit,\u201d said Corrine Carey \u2013 Local 2797 Unit Chair.<\/p>\n<p>More than the 50 members of the unit are employed as Servicing Representatives and Administrative Staff for the NSGEU.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: IAM bargaining committee left to right Dustin Rioux, Corinne Carey, and Sarah Covey.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-30-<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mbarnable@iamaw.org\"><strong>Matt Barnable<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIAM International Representative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax, NS\u00a0\u2013 Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU) workers in IAM Local 2797 have just ratified a three-year contract with a 92 percent margin in favour of the agreement. \u201cBargaining took place over a long period, and we were faced with challenges as we entered conciliation. Our elected bargaining committee did a fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,67,61,72,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-31382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-dl140","10":"tag-iam","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-union","14":"post-with-thumbnail","15":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31383,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions\/31383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}