Your CMG bargaining committee is very pleased to announce that we have reached agreement in principle with the S-VOX bargaining team for a first collective agreement.

The three-year-plus deal calls for across-the-board salary increases of 6% in the first year and 3% in each of the following two years. In addition, S-VOX will make RRSP contributions of up to 6% of salary on every employee’s behalf each year, without requiring the employee to match the contribution.

Over the next three years, the union and management will re-examine and re-evaluate all job classifications within the bargaining unit to ensure that salaries are realistic and properly reflect the value of the work the employees are called upon to do.

There are also improvements to annual vacations and personal absence or “floating” days, and clearer rules around posting of vacancies, hiring and scheduling.

Click here to download the draft agreement. Please take the time to read the agreement; we will be holding information sessions on June 25 and 26 to answer any questions you may have prior to the ratification vote. The vote is expected to take place before the end of June.

We would like to thank all our members for their support over the past months. It’s taken longer than we might have liked, but we are proud of the result and we are unanimously recommending that you accept it.

Your bargaining committee.