Proposed NorthTec settlement may end long-running dispute

TEU members at NorthTec will vote shortly on a new collective agreement to replace the one that expired in November 2010. Between then and now, all new staff at NorthTec have been covered by an individual agreement with lesser working conditions than the expired collective agreement.

The proposed new agreement will give union members a 2.05 percent pay rise for each of the two years the agreement runs , as well as a $1200 lump sum payment for members who were previously on the expired collective agreement.