{"id":760960,"date":"2026-06-25T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:39:12","slug":"marine-atlantic-ceo-says-decision-on-essential-service-status-expected-july-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760960\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Atlantic CEO says Decision on Essential Service Status Expected July 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/murray-hupman-marine-atlantic-ceo.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Marine Atlantic CEO says Decision on Essential Service Status Expected July 6th\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Hupman, CEO of Marine Atlantic (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Marine Atlantic says the Industrial Relations Board will make a decision on Unifor\u2019s application on whether to consider Marine Atlantic an essential service on July 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Hupman says they will be making their submissions on the situation  to the board next week, and then the following Monday a decision will be made. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the collective bargaining front, Hupman says they are going into mediation with Unifor on Monday, and there is another mediation session scheduled for the end of July. <\/p>\n<p>He dismisses the notion that Marine Atlantic has been dragging its heels through the negotiation process. <\/p>\n<p>He says it is \u201cjust the way the process unfolds,\u201d and that if there was a perfect formula to conduct negotiations these situations would never happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Murray Hupman, CEO of Marine Atlantic (VOCM News) The CEO of Marine Atlantic says the Industrial Relations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-760960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760960","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=760960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}