TORONTO – Chinese-language daily newspaper Ming Pao has reached a two-year agreement that gives its 135 workers their first union contract.
The Toronto-based paper was the centre of an 11-week strike last fall, said the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
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The strike came to an end in December when the Ontario Labour Relations Board ruled that the paper’s Hong Kong owner Ming Pao Group was being “uncompromising,” and ordered that a labour contract be written through arbitration.
The agreement reduces the employee work week to 40 hours, from 44, and adds more vacation and paid holidays, including the Chinese New Year.
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