Strike mandate approved in university pension dispute

The union representing around 1,900 support workers at the University of Saskatchewan has voted to give its bargaining committee a strike mandate, two weeks after it served notice that negotiations had reached an impasse over pensions.
Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1975, whose members work in clerical, administrative and various other positions, conducted the strike vote last Thursday and Friday, and announced the results Monday morning.
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