CUPE 543.1 has voted 94.4% in favour of four-year contract with the City of Windsor.
President Mark Vander Voort says it's a good deal and union members seem to be happy with it.
Vander Voort says job security was a key issue, citing "heightened concerns over the recent contracting out of the caretakers makes everyone a little more vulnerable or feel more vulnerable with respect to contracting out and being displaced from their jobs."
Vander Voort says he's glad talks were respectful and the tension that was there during 2009 negotiations seems to have gone.
He adds that another issue was employee bumping and eventually a compromise was reached.
"If they were going to bump into another job that they had to be able to determine they were qualified by writing the test they normally would when they're recruiting for a job," he says.
"We don't want to be on strike or locked out" Vander Voort says. "We don't want a disruption in service. We want to do our jobs to the best of our ability and we want respect."
