NAPE Reaches Tentative Agreement with Canadian Blood Services

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For immediate Release:

Friday, June 19, 2015

NAPE Reaches Tentative Agreement with Canadian Blood Services 

ST. JOHN’S, NL– The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) is pleased to announce that it has reached a tentative agreement for 57 employees with Canadian Blood Services Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s.

“This has been a long and arduous set of negotiations, so we are pleased to reach this tentative agreement,” said NAPE Jerry Earle. “We were successful in securing monetary increases in wages as well as several improvements in contract language.”

Details of the tentative agreement will be released to members at the ratification meeting, which is currently being scheduled.

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For further information, please contact:

Keith Dunne, NAPE Campaigns and Communications Coordinator

(phone) 709.570.2501

(cell) 709.631.9737

(e-mail) kdunne@nape.ca