It has been more than 600 days since the faculty association initiated bargaining and nearly 1.5 years since the last collective agreement expired.
It has been more than 600 days since the faculty association initiated bargaining and nearly 1.5 years since the last collective agreement expired.
If they are successful, these 20 academic upgrading instructors will join the Mount Royal Staff Association.
This is despite these same workers having a real wage cut of 22% in their last 2 contracts.
Over their last two contracts, these workers received 5 years of wage freezes, leading to a cut of nearly 19% to their real wages.
That is more than 3 times what the employer has demanded.
Their last contract expired at the end of last June.
Their last contract expired a year ago.
Up until now, these 100 or so workers have been represented by an in-house employee association.
These workers received no increases in their previous contract and had been making less than $20 an hour.
These wage freezes come on top of freezes in each of the previous 3 years, bringing to total 6 years in a row without a pay increase.