The union representing 120,000 federal public servants has voted in favour of a strike mandate. Six hundred of those employees work in Nunavut, the N.W.T. and Yukon.
The unions representing striking City of Yellowknife employees say a return-to-work agreement has been finalized, and the bargaining team endorses the tentative deal. Voting is happening Friday.
Rafael Gomez, the director for the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto, said Tuesday that without trust between the two parties, one other avenue forward is through a third party but not necessarily an independent arbitrator. City council could help bridge the gap between the two parties, he said.