We are actually going to start strike preparation courses throughout Nunavut. We need this employer to understand this is serious and we mean business. Vacation travel assistance, wages, and housing are at the top of the list when the upcoming fourth round of negotiations take place this fall, Workman said.
Costs are astronomical.
We have to fly out or boat, I mean, I don't know, we can go on the sealift I guess. Workman said he thought the government was not listening to the union during the last round of negotiations. We understand what's on the table is a 15 per cent increase in northern allowance. This is 15 per cent of 1995 numbers. This is what we find really offensive.