Language Instructors at SMU ratify new CUPE contracts

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwired - July 9, 2015) - Language Instructors at The Language Centre (TLC) have ratified a new collective agreement.

CUPE National Representative Marianne Welsh says "Members of CUPE 3912 at Saint Mary's University (TLC) have ratified a new four-year agreement. The contract runs retroactively from August 09, 2014 through to August 08, 2018."

Says Welsh, "The agreement was concluded with the assistance of Conciliation Services and was strongly endorsed by the membership on June 22^nd and ratified by the university this week."

CUPE 3912 represents over three-thousand members in four bargaining units at three Halifax universities.