{"id":755548,"date":"2026-06-23T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:57:14","slug":"winnipeg-and-its-largest-union-agree-to-arbitration-if-contract-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755548\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg and its largest union agree to arbitration if contract talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Winnipeg and its largest union have agreed to arbitration in the event the two sides can&#8217;t hammer out a new labour deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500, which represents about 5,000 workers, has been without a new labour agreement with the city since Feb. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>CUPE 500 said in a bulletin posted on its website on June 14 that it and the city have agreed to allow an arbitrator decide on a new collective bargaining agreement if the talks currently underway don&#8217;t result in a deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This process means there will be no strike and no lockout during this round of bargaining,&#8221; the bulletin states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members will continue to provide services to the public while receiving their regular wages and benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CUPE 500 bulletin likened this arbitration process to the one used by Winnipeg&#8217;s police and fire paramedic services.<\/p>\n<p>The union said this use of arbitration is a &#8220;one-time agreement&#8221; with the city.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham said in a statement he&#8217;s happy both sides have agreed to a process that won&#8217;t result in a strike or job action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-755548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}