BC Hydro Reaches Tentative Deal with COPE 378
Thursday, November 22, 2012 @ 3:53 AM
Burnaby, B.C.- BC Hydro has reached a tentative contract deal with the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378 (COPE378) . This agreement is subject to ratification by COPE 378’s members at BC Hydro.
The tentative agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift, staggered throughout the two years of the collective agreement. The collective agreement is retroactive to April 1st of this year, and ends March 31, 2014. The union’s bargaining committee is recommending ratification to its members.
Highlights of the tentative agreement include:
· April 1, 2012 (fully retroactive) – 1 per cent wage increase
· October 1, 2012 – 1 per cent wage increase
· April 1, 2013 – 1 per cent wage increase
· October 1, 2013 – 1 per cent wage increase
· Modest benefit increases such as expansion of immediate family to bereavement language and favourable changes to length of service
The ratification vote will be held by mail-in ballot.
COPE 378 represents nearly 2,000 inside technical, professional and administrative workers at BC Hydro. The union and the employer have been bargaining since April 2012, not including a summer hiatus.
Comments
Wow that’s between 2 and 3 cents an hour.
I think you missed a decimal point, acrider.
Yay, another increase in Hydro rates just because well paid workers want more. So happy for them.
Most of the Hydro employees are highly skilled and work in a dangerous field. Also, four percent over two years is not a raise, it is (almost) the rate of inflation.
Waaaaa, I didn’t earn a trade ticket, so those that did should work for minimum wage, waaaaa.
I am not saying that these people don’t deserve a raise but the inflation rate for B.C. this year is .7% so 4% over two years is very good as long as the inflation rate stays where it is.
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