UNW Collective Agreement
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
UNION OF NORTHERN WORKERS'
AND
THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE
A Collective Agreement was officially signed between the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and the Union of Northern Workers' (UNW) on August 2, 2005. This is a four-year agreement expiring March 31, 2009. Salary increases for 2005/06 are effective
April 1, 2005. All other changes are effective August 2, 2005 unless otherwise noted.
This includes changes to various forms of Leave, Shift Premiums, Acting Pay, and Mandatory Leave; as well as new provisions for Midwives and Relief employees.
The pay grids were retroactive to April 1, 2005. Changes to the Northern Allowance will commence effective April 1, 2006.
Welcome to the online PDF version of the Collective Agreement Between the Union of Northern Workers and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service (the Agreement), which expires on March 31, 2009.
The formal printed version of the Agreement is the official copy. The online version of the document is virtually identical to the formal printed version, apart from some minor formatting differences that arise when documents are placed onto the Internet.
The entire Agreement is quite large, and downloading it for each inquiry can be time consuming. Therefore, certain sections of the Agreement have been linked to allow you to quickly jump to a specific location in a document, create cross-references, mark page ranges for index entries, and so on. When using a link, only the pages of that section of the Agreement are downloaded reducing considerable time.
The links to specific sections of the Agreement are:
Index - Cover Page, Numerical and Alphabetical Indexes
Letter of Understanding and Memorandums
Complete Collective Agreement - Expires March 31, 2009
While viewing each section separately it is possible to move quickly from one Article etc. to the next or back to the previous article simply by clicking on a bookmark at the left-hand side of the document.
When you first enter the complete online version, bookmarks to the left of the document provide a table of contents that allows you to quickly access any Article, Appendix, Memorandum or Letter of Understanding. When you select a particular bookmark you are automatically taken to its location in the Agreement.
We hope you find this online version of the Collective Agreement useful. Should you have any inquiries on this Collective Agreement, please contact the Human Resource Service Centre in your region.
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Complete Collective Agreement - Expires March 31, 2005
Complete Collective Agreement - Expires March 31, 2002
Complete Collective Agreement - Expires March 31, 2000
