HALIFAX – The province and the public sector teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement on Thursday.
No details about the deal are being released until after a ratification vote on December 1. The tentative contract was announced in a press release late Thursday evening.
It affects about 9,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union, who have been without a collective agreement since it expired in July.
“Our provincial executive met today and voted to present the deal to our public school members. Our members will be presented with the details of the tentative agreement during regional meetings next week,” said Shelley Morse, president of the union, in a joint press release with the government.
Next week regional meetings will be held with the teachers to outline the deal.
“We’re pleased a tentative agreement has been reached with the NSTU,” said Premier Stephen McNeil in the same press release. “I encourage other bargaining units to come to the table to continue collective bargaining.”
The tentative agreement is the first in a slate of negotiations the government is holding with other unions through out the fall and possibly into 2016.
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