Unionized cleaners reach tentative agreement with GDI

300 SEIU Local 2 members vote to ratify a new collective agreement//Logo for SEIU. (File photo)

By Shelli Summers

Posted Jan 24, 2025 06:34:58 AM.

Last Updated Jan 24, 2025 02:25:22 PM.

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.

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.

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