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Manitoba community colleges consider strike vote

Information picket at Red River College protest bad faith bargaining.

Winnipeg ( 8 June 2010) - Approximately 150 Red River College members and supporters from the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union (MGEU/NUPGE) staged an information picket at the Princess Street campus of Red River College (RRC) in Winnipeg.

They were protesting a lack of progress and bad faith bargaining by their employer after a refusal to negotiate any meaningful improvements to wages or health benefits during 35 bargaining sessions.

The sum total of management's salary offer over a four-year period amounts to 3% (1% increase retroactive to June 2009, 0% June 2010, 0% June 2011, and a 2% increase in June 2012).

Dressed in red as a sign of solidarity, RRC members circled the downtown campus with placards that read, Honey they shrunk the offer,Where's the Fairness? and You can’t eat a zero!

This week Assiniboine Community College (ACC) and RRC members will take a vote to determine if whether or not to give bargaining committee with a strike mandate. The employees have been without a contract for almost a year.

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