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Unionized workers reach a deal with North Shore Winter Club

Contract gives CUPE members 5 % increase over 18 months.

 

 

Unionized workers at the North Shore Winter Club have reached a contract deal with the club, ending a more than seven-month lockout.

CUPE union members reached a tentative deal with the private club Dec. 23, with the help of a mediator.

Employees voted 91 per cent in favour of the deal Dec. 24, according to the union.

The new contract gives the union members a five per cent increase over the next 18 months.

John Strohmaier, the spokesman for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said employees are keen to get back to work.

Prior to the deal, the labour dispute had become one of the longest running in the province, with 16 workers locked out for more than 230 days.

Earlier in December, the union rejected an offer that would have cut the unionized workforce from 16 down to seven.

Workers were first locked out in April.

The contract deal expires June 30, 2015.

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