Photo: The voice of labour

Geoff Ryan, a regional vice president for the Northern Territories Federation of Labour (holding a megaphone); with Doug Workman, president of the Nunavut Employees Union; Julie Docherty of Whitehorse, the newly-elected regional vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s northern component; and Bill Fennell, a vice-president of the NEU, at a Labour Day barbecue held Sept. 5 on the pavilion at Sylvia Grinnell Park in Iqaluit. Three different groups of public sector workers — at the City of Iqaluit, the Qulliq Energy Corp. and the Government of Nunavut — are preparing for strike mandate votes right now. Bargaining units at the City of Iqaluit and the GN have rejected 1 per cent a year wage offers and the QEC unit has rejected 2 per cent a year wage offers made by their respective employers in recent wage talks. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)