We were able to negotiate a fair wage increase when we looked at the interest rates that were going up and the inflation rates that were happening in the province. These inflation increases were not happening because of workers but because of other factors.
One of the biggest things we did in bargaining was get protection for our trades workers, protection for the future of our work, because our employers were refusing to upgrade our tradespeople, to train them in new technologies, or even to train them in old technologies that had changed slightly. We were losing a lot of our jurisdiction on that, and unfortunately, there was a 13-day strike, but we were able to achieve that once the employers came to the table and actually had a conversation with us. We were able to gain language that makes our employers upgrade and train our tradespeople.