GN and employees union head back to the bargaining table – Nunatsiaq News

Negotiations toward new contract to resume on Monday

Bargaining teams from the Government of Nunavut and the Nunavut Employees Union are set to get back to work towards a new collective agreement.

The GN’s collective agreement with the NEU, which determines wages and benefits for more than 4,000 GN employees, expired at the end of September 2018. It remains in place while the two sides negotiate a new contract.

Bargaining will resume on Monday, NEU President Jason Rochon confirmed in an email.

“We are cautiously optimistic,” he said in his statement.

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