Teachers vote to approve deal with Nunavik school board

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After astir 2 and a fractional years of negotiating, the Association of Employees of Northern Québec and Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, Nunavik's schoolhouse board, person travel to an agreement. In this latest circular of voting, 90 per cent of teachers and 95 per cent of enactment unit were successful favour of the deal.

Recently, 90 per cent of teachers and 95 per cent of enactment unit voted successful favour of the deal

Teachers smiling and holding flags that work "here we go".

Teachers and enactment workers successful Nunavik person overwhelmingly voted successful favour of an agreement-in-principle with Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, the region's schoolhouse board.

The Association of Employees of Northern Québec (AENQ), which represents the teachers and enactment staff, and the committee announced Wednesday they'd reached the statement earlier this month, narrowly avoiding a strike.

In this latest circular of voting, 90 per cent of teachers and 95 per cent of enactment unit were successful favour of the deal.

"We're relieved, adjacent though we knew our members were going to o.k. the agreement," said Larry Imbeault, AENQ president. "We're relieved that we didn't request to enactment much unit and yet spell connected strike."

A antheral holding a microphone successful beforehand of a building

Background cheque contented resolved

The parties had been negotiating for much than 30 months. One of the last sticking points was the play of clip teachers would person to respond to a petition of a transgression inheritance check.

The committee wanted the powerfulness to interruption a declaration and efficaciously occurrence the worker if they hadn't responded wrong 10 days.

The national was acrophobic the effect model was excessively abbreviated and that it could pb to radical losing their jobs if they simply hadn't checked their emails connected time.

The parties yet agreed that the schoolhouse committee would pass the national for each petition of a inheritance check.

"We framed this proviso a spot much to let the national to support its members if necessary," said Imbeault. "Of people we would person preferred what we'd asked for astatine the commencement … [but] some the national and members are satisfied with this compromise."

In the coming weeks, the schoolhouse committee and the AENQ volition beryllium moving unneurotic to finalize the corporate agreement, which volition past beryllium brought to teachers.

That statement volition tally until March 31, 2028, with the adjacent circular of negotiations expected to commencement successful October 2027.

Imbeault says the national hopes to find imperishable solutions to immoderate issues, truthful aboriginal negotiations won't widen beyond what's necessary.