Support staff at Ontario’s 24 public colleges, including Canadore, have ratified a four-year contract extension.

OPSEU says members voted 75 per cent in favour of the extension.

The union says the agreement includes a 7.75 per cent wage increase over the four years plus improvements to drug coverage, leave provisions and contracting-out language.

Union official Janice Hagan says the contracting-out language will save jobs for current staff and for the next generation of workers.

Hagan says putting a stop to contracting out has been the union’s “number one bargaining demand” for 20 years.

(With files from The Canadian Press) 

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