TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – About 100 unionised employees at Cameco Fuel Manufacturing’s operations, in Port Hope and Cobourg, Ontario, had voted to accept a new collective agreement, Canadian uranium major Cameco reported on Friday.
The employees, represented by the United Steelworkers local 14193, had agreed to a three-year contract that included a 7% wage increase over the term of the agreement. The previous contract expired on June 1.
Cameco Fuel Manufacturing was one of two Canadian manufacturers of fuel bundles for Candu nuclear reactors and also supplied various components for nuclear reactors. The total workforce at the company's operations, including managers and nonunionised employees, was about 300.