Owen Sound council has given its blessing to a new collective agreement with the city’s unionized inside workers.
Council approved a staff recommendation at Monday night’s meeting to ratify a memorandum of settlement and execute a new collective agreement between the city and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1189-00. No word if CUPE members have ratified it yet.
The term of the new agreement is three years and will end on Dec. 31, 2023. It includes an annual wage increase of 1.5 per cent.
Owen Sound’s Director of Corporate Services Kate Allan told councillors Monday the wage increase agreed on represents half of the original proposal brought forward by CUPE members.
CUPE 1189-00 represents about 30 inside workers at city hall in the corporate services, community services, public works and engineering departments.
This includes employees such as accounts payable, service representative, junior/intermediate planners, events specialist, tourism marketing coordinator and tax collector.
A report by Owen Sound’s Human Resources Manager Melissa Clancy explains the total annual payroll for the city’s unionized inside workers is about $1.87-million.
