Newfoundland and Labrador correctional officers, ferry and air services workers reject contract offers from province | SaltWire

‘It’s a job to negotiate recognition,’ says NAPE president Jerry Earle

Workers on the province’s ferries were among those who rejected a contract offer from the province on Saturday. Pictured in this file photo are the ferries Flanders and Legionnaire crossing the Tickle between Bell Island and Portugal Cove. -SaltWire Network file photoST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Public-sector workers with the province’s largest union voted largely in favour of new collective agreements in a ratification vote that concluded Oct. 1.

NAPE president Jerry Earle said this is language that unions have been fighting for in the province for 10 to 20 years. “How often do you hear an air ambulance pilot talked about? They provide an invaluable service to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, transferring the most critically ill people,” he said.

Earle said he couldn’t discuss the particular issues of the three bargaining units that didn’t ratify the tentative agreement.

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