2 October 2003

The CS collective agreement has been ratified by a majority of the membership. NRC will be notified shortly. They must then go through the Governor-in-Council approval process. This should take about six weeks. Once this is completed, the new agreement will be signed. As such, we anticipate signing the agreement by mid-November. Once the agreement is signed, NRC has 90 days to implement the terms of the new agreement.