Unionized cleaners reach tentative agreement with GDI
HRM may have dodged a first-ever large-scale private sector janitorial strike.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2 represents 300 integrated facility services working for GDI Integrated Facility Services in HRM, which reached a tentative agreement with the employer.
A ratification vote has been scheduled for Saturday. The employees will decide whether to accept the new collective agreement or proceed with a strike starting Monday.
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The union’s bargaining committee recommends that the membership approve the deal, the details of which have not been released pending the membership vote.
the workers have been without a contract since September of last year.
