The City of North Battleford has reached a deal with its city workers' and firefighters' unions.
Bargaining is now complete with Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 287 and International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1756, according to City Manager Jim Toye.
Details of the two contracts have yet to be disclosed, but will be unveiled March 26 when the unions sign off on the two contracts at that night's city council meeting.
The contract with CUPE Local 287, representing city workers, will cover the period from April 1, 2011, when the previous contract expired, to March 31, 2014. The contract with IAFF, representing the firefighters, covers Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2012.
CUPE had been pushing for a new contract over the last several weeks. Several CUPE Local 287 members had been regularly filling the galleries at city council meetings since December as a show of solidarity for a new deal.
With the two contracts now out of the way the city also plans to deal with setting its out-of-scope salaries for 2012. However, that will have to wait until the next meeting. A resolution introduced Monday night that would have increased the out-of-scope salary grid by three per cent for 2012 has been tabled to March 26.
