City of Kenora, CUPE Local 191 reach tentative agreement ahead of strike deadline

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· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 7:42 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The City of Kenora and the national representing its front-line workers person reached a tentative corporate bargaining agreement.

The workers, represented by CUPE Local 191, had a onslaught deadline of 12:01 a.m. Saturday. However, section president Jayson Pykerman said the corporate statement was reached precocious Friday night.

Pykerman said the members person been without a declaration since 2023. CUPE Local 191 represents workers successful a fig of antithetic municipal jobs, including bureau workers, lawsuit work representatives, roads workers, and dense instrumentality operators.

"It was pugnacious from the beginning," Pykerman said of negotiations. "We consciousness it is simply a measurement successful the close absorption for this rank and aboriginal employees."

"From the start, we wanted to marque definite that everybody received the aforesaid rates and privileges we held for decades."

Pykerman said the statement volition present beryllium presented to the membership. A ratification ballot volition instrumentality spot this week.

The onslaught deadline, meanwhile, has been pushed to Friday.

"We recovered this to beryllium the fairest woody that could beryllium reached," Pykerman said. "So if they judge it, we motion off, we're done. If not, we spell backmost to the tables and commencement trying to negociate further."

In a media release, the metropolis said it has a contingency program successful spot that volition support indispensable services successful the lawsuit of a labour disruption.

"Council is pleased that the parties were capable to scope a tentative agreement," Kenora Mayor Andrew Poirier said successful the statement.

"This means that our CUPE Local 191 workers volition proceed to present the day-to-day services that are important to our community. We convey some parties for their determination to scope a solution and the ongoing committedness to the process," helium said.