Frontline workers with CUPE Local 3314 have voted 81% in favour of ratifying a tentative agreement with Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
“We look forward to the employer successfully ratifying our new three-year collective agreement tomorrow and expect to return to work on Wednesday,” Kim Craig, president of CUPE Local 3314, says in a statement.
“The resolve of my coworkers withdrawing their labour for 10 days – along with the solidarity of our Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) colleagues and the support of our communities’ residents – has resulted in reasonable and necessary wage increases plus some modest improvements to benefits.”
The new agreement includes a three per cent wage increase this year, retroactive to January 1, and 2.5% increases for each of the next two years.
About 70 public health inspectors, dental assistants and hygienists, dieticians, health promoters and other workers had been on strike since September 22.
