Ontario has reached a tentative four-year agreement with over 600 professional engineers and land surveyors who have been withdrawing services from key infrastructure projects due to concerns over lagging earnings. The deal, reached with the Professional Engineers Government of Ontario (PEGO) bargaining association, aims to address the pay disparity between these professionals and their counterparts in municipalities.
TORONTO — Ontario has reached a tentative deal with more than 600 professional engineers and land surveyors who have been withdrawing their services from key infrastructure projects as part of a labour dispute.
The Professional Engineers Government of Ontario bargaining association had said members’ earnings have fallen so far behind that they sometimes earn half of what people in similar positions at municipalities make.Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney says in a statement that the new, four-year tentative agreement is good for workers and their families and ensures long-term fiscal sustainability for the province.
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