The new contract includes 17.5 per cent wage increases over five years.
Union workers at Dare Foods’s Boulangerie Grissol facility in Ste-Martine, southwest of Montreal, have accepted an offer on a new contract, ending an unlimited strike that began last Sunday. They will return to the job on Friday morning, the Syndicat des employés professionnels et de bureau (SEPB) union said.
The 88 workers voted 79 per cent in favour of the latest management offer during a general meeting Thursday afternoon. The offer was made Tuesday.
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The deal includes salary increases of about 17.5 per cent over five years. Other improvements have been made to night and weekend premiums and days off, the union said. The union had sought 18 per cent increases over three years, while the employer had originally offered 13.25 per cent over four years.
Boulangerie Grissol makes several dry packaged bread products including Melba toast, bread sticks and croutons.