Unionized workers at the Insurance Corp. of B.C. have voted 71 per cent in favour of ratifying a new contract with the public auto insurer.
The agreement covers about 4,600 employees, members of Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, who staged a three-day strike during the summer along with overtime bans to press their demands.
The contract includes a four per cent wage increase that will be implemented in stages, with the first increase retroactive to July 1, 2012.
The agreement, which expires in July 2014, also includes improvements to maternity and parental leave.
COPE local 378 president David Black said the deal promises a workload study at ICBC, the first such study to be done in nearly 20 years.
