BRACEBRIDGE OPSEU WORKERS GET FOUR-YEAR DEAL WORTH 1%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 1.5%

BRACEBRIDGE — Union workers with the town here have come to terms with the municipality on a four-year wage hike that will see a 1 per cent increase as of June 1, with further increases each year of 1.5 per cent in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Mayor Graydon Smith confirmed some the terms of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) late Friday afternoon with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 305, which was ratified by town council Aug. 10.

OPSEU represents 44 full-time and temporary staff working in a variety of operational, recreational, programming, clerical, administrative and technical positions.

The new agreement replaces one that expired May 31.

The new CBA extends from June 1 to May 31, 2025.

The tentative settlement was reached July 28 and was ratified by the union Aug.

Deputy mayor Rick Maloney, a member of the negotiating committee, said “the new agreement met the bargaining mandate by achieving benefit cost containment and fair wage adjustments.”