CUPE delays strike votes, says province omitted names of eligible voters
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Some strike votes among Canadian Union of Public Employees locals are being delayed until Saturday because more than 800 employees' names were missing from the lists of eligible voters provided by the province, the union says.
Eight of the 10 locals taking part in strike votes were initially expected to finish voting on Thursday. Of those eight locals, five had names missing from the list of eligible voters. "That's not right," CUPE New Brunswick president Steve Drost said of the missing names. "We're a very democratic organization and they have a right to have their voices heard and their votes counted." Workers have been without contracts since between 2016 and 2019, and could strike by the end of the month if deals for higher wages aren't signed. It became apparent that hundreds of employees' names were missing mid-way through the week after voting began on Monday, Sept. 7, Drost said. One local had over 400 names missing, he said.
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