Technical, administrative support staff at Manitoba Hydro vote for strike action

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 02, 2025 7:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Technical and administrative enactment workers astatine Manitoba Hydro person voted successful favour of onslaught enactment aft their national says negotiations with the Crown utilities corp reached a stalemate. 

CUPE Local 998, the section of the national representing astir 870 Manitoba Hydro workers, said the onslaught ballot comes months into bargaining successful which the Crown corp has failed to contiguous an connection that is accordant with different bargaining units.

The ballot successful favour of the strike mandate happened on Friday. The national said successful a connection Monday that it is filing for conciliation services successful an effort to scope a woody earlier mounting a onslaught date, which could hap wrong a fewer weeks. 

The national said the Crown corp was mismanaged by the erstwhile PC authorities and the NDP authorities has failed to "right the ship," contempt its promises. 

A spokesperson for Manitoba Hydro said the Crown corp remains committed to the corporate bargaining process with hopes of reaching a just colony accordant with agreements reached with different bargaining units.  

Manitoba Hydro workers represented by Unifor ratified a caller declaration with the Crown corp earlier this twelvemonth and a tentative statement with workers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union's section section successful 2023.

CUPE said it is bargaining for wage increases adjacent to different bargaining units, the reversal of privatization efforts and addressing national designation issues by Hydro management. 

The national said its Local 998 chapter is the second-largest bargaining radical astatine Manitoba Hydro, representing IT, the lawsuit engagement centre and different method and administrative enactment staff.