KRG reaches new agreements with unionized employees
Contracts provide salary increase, flexible working conditions
From left, KRG corporate secretary Ina Gordon, chairperson Hilda Snowball, KRG Employees’ Union treasurer Susan Matt, union negotiator Ida Nayoumealuk and union president Victor Mesher sign a new collective agreement on Oct. 24. (Photo courtesy of KRG)
Kativik Regional Government has signed two new collective agreements with its unionized employees.
The contracts, which will remain in place until the end of 2025, impact about 300 workers, according to KRG communications director Denis Abbott.
Abbott described the employees as KRG’s “general and transport workers.”
The deals do not include Nunavik Police Service members.
All unionized employees — accounting for two-thirds of the KRG workforce — are based in Nunavik, Abbott said.
The deal includes a 10 per cent pay increase over the next four years; teleworking flexibility; individual bonuses for seniority and new employee referrals; and cost-of-living allowances.
“These agreements reflect a terrific working relationship going back many years between the Kativik Regional Government and the Kativik Regional Government Employees’ Union,” said KRG chairperson Hilda Snowball in a news release Oct. 24.
KRG Employees’ Union president Victor Mesher, said employees are happy to have a new agreement.
However, he said it was “frustrating” that a translation issue cased a 10-month delay in getting the agreement signed.
“The union found other Indigenously populated unions have ‘exceptions’ to the rule of tabling collective agreements in French only, to the provincial government, but again the employer seems to be OK with French being imposed into Nunavik and our interactions in our employer-employee relations,” Mesher said in an emailed statement.
They should do something about the deplorable living conditions brought on by alcohol and drugs abuse in Nunavik. It’s gone to new levels of deterioration. Do I see someone from George River in that photo, how she responding to the crisis being deal with and reported by medical staff in the sinking community?
IT IS TRUE , THAT THINGS ARE GETTING VERY BAD IN NUNAVIK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Things are as you are capable of understanding it to be. If a person from Nunavik asked if things are getting worse, then you are 9/10 chances of being a big part of the problem with no care or too stupid you have insightful life. For someone outside of Nunavik, if you ask, I would say you don’t read updates via crime reports, and not aware of medical emergency the challenger jet coming and going regularly, and funerals making the graveyard smell like booze. And if you really don’t know about Nunavik, that’s ok , there lots of time to learn, just hang out around Dorval, or visit a hospital in Montreal and see if you can spot someone from Nunavik with head injuries or in a coma from tragedy related to alcohol.
Medical staff, lead by a dedicated physician in kangigsualujjuaq, has been voicing out over social media and elsewhere about a sinking community about to collapse. Seems like he’s even getting those in charge in the medical field turning his comments away. But he has the bulk of the people of kangigsualujjuaq on his side. He’s reporting abuses right up there on the front.
Born in a little town, Kangiqsualujjuaq. Our Governor General was born there. The town has become an insult among its own fame. Imagine how alcohol and drugs cripples the crippling. The only way to overcome this is to keep the substance away from them that are not capable of having it without being insanely lunatics, and are making the community look bad. There’s no laws or treatments that would change them. No church or prayers, or an other motive, other than total forbidden them the access. And even that will not stop them. They’re all through Nunavik. I say to anyone with a sense of decency, don’t serve idiots booze, period. Ask what can you do to help deranged the lunatic ? And in turn helping innocent people live a better life.
Respect has to be earned. If it’s not earned, it’s not respect,it’s something else, like sucking up or some other fake concept. There’s no respect left in leadership in Nunavik. How can people respect those going around from community to community, Montreal trips, wasting , partying.? Hung over, barely making it through the day, discussing people’s lives?
They use their people to gain investments. Our education, finances are not well taken care of. Governments and organization is over looked. Very different individuals where they relocate to other inuit lands that was built by older generations long ago, and now we are living in cursed world. Abusive unwanted assault that are not known. Not trust worthy inuit today.
It’s sad to see people deteriorating since the pass 40 or so years. Where’s the strength? Turned to alcohol, and more recently drugs in out of this world. Even hunting and fishing and going on the land is done with one hand in, and the other hand holding a can of beer. Pulling a fishing net with one hand , or drunk shooting a caribou. Somebody not coping well with life. Pass traumas, it’s said, so that how you handle your emotions. Frankly I think, it’s a cheap excuse used by those that are not coping with life. There’s help out there seek it. Do it for your kids. Be strong for the little ones growing up. Ask yourself what are you doing to help yourself and others first and foremost.
I’ll invite you to tuned into the leadership of Nunavik. Watch it carefully. Personally I have zero respect for that pathetic leadership. It’s a joke, self government, my…… The money that has been wasted over the years. The party’s, the hotels, fine dining, travel, infidelity, family neglect, by mothers and fathers, leaving the community, going off to meeting’s , talking about the same old topic with zero plans and solutions coming out of it. (a.k.a )
party in kuujjuaq, Montreal. Making the Inuit name in the lights for Alcohol and drugs abuse. I have zero respect for Nunavik leadership. It’s a insult to Inuit and a joke to the country and province. See how Inuit have no choice but to be governed by Quebec and Canadian, not by the excuse of what we call leadership of Nunavik.
Great points all around, but nothing to do with the article.
It’s called connecting the little dots along the curved line that most don’t even know is there. Like you have nothing to do with me, and me nothing to you, but here we are in a collective disagreement about the mess.