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NAPE president Carol Furlong hopes a new contract with a home support agency will set a pattern elsewhere in the industry. (CBC)The president of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest union thinks a new contract involving home care workers could pave the way in other parts of the industry.
About 600 employees with the private agency Caregivers Inc. have ratified a new collective agreement.
The workers are represented by the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees.
NAPE president Carol Furlong told CBC News she believes the contract will be an example for the union as it deals with 16 other home support agencies.
"We hope that the other agencies will see that there's a need now to recognize — if they want to support recruitment and retention of what is currently a fairly transient field — [that] they're going to have to provide similar kinds of benefits as well," Furlong said in an interview.
Furlong said the workers made significant gains in wages, benefits and contract language, as well as with provisions regarding seniority and a new leave package.
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