MONTREAL, July 11,
2024 /CNW/ - The 190 members of the Syndicat général
du cinéma et de la télévision (SGCT), CUPE 4835, who work at the
National Film Board of Canada
(NFB), have a new collective agreement. The new deal was signed
electronically on June 20 and
initialled on July 4.
« Negotiations went well. We had to merge two collective
agreements into one, and we wanted to take the time to get it
right. We're pleased with the gains we've made, but we're still
very concerned given the successive waves of layoffs we've
experienced over the past few months," says Olivier Lamothe, President of SGCT – CUPE
4835.
The contract includes salary increases and adjustments totalling
4.75% for 2022, 3.5% for 2023, 2.25% for 2024 and 2% for 2025.
Added to these gains is a framework for the use of new
technologies, providing justification for changes and requiring the
employer to inform the union 60 days prior to implementation, to
minimize the impact on workers and to provide the necessary upgrade
training during working hours.
The employer will also have to give those affected by the
abolition of their positions more advance notice than was
previously the case and pay them an education allowance up to
$6000. The workforce adjustment
clause has also been improved.
CUPE is Canada's largest union,
with 750,000 members working in health care, education,
universities, municipalities, libraries, social services,
utilities, ground and air transportation, emergency services and
communications.
SOURCE Canadian Union of Public Employees (FTQ)