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These workers have been waiting for 3.5% years for a new collective agreement and their wages have fallen nearly 20% behind inflation since unionizing.

The employer has offered increases to wages, shift premiums, meal allowance, paid holidays, and severance pay, but the bargaining committee says it falls short.

These dozen or so WD Processing workers unionized earlier this year.

The workers are employed with Prairie EMS and will also receive improvements in shift premiums, health benefits, and RRSP contributions.

Some workers have been stuck at $15 an hour since they got their first contract in 2021.

And that is just the second year of the new contract. They want additional increases retroactive to this past May, when the previous contract expired.

These workers unionized last year, so they are trying to negotiate their first collective agreement.

When you factor in wage increases over the last two contracts plus inflation during that time and leading up to this past summer, wages for these workers are 21% behind inflation.

These workers have not received a wage increase in 2.5 years.