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The Vancouver Art Gallery’s 200 unionized employees voted in favour of a mediated settlement late Monday after a weeklong strike.

According to a news release from the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 15, the workers walked off the job on Feb. 5 over “wages and gallery managers’ attempts to eliminate long-standing scheduling rights.”

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The new deal came after eight months of bargaining that led to the appointment of a mediator.

“Our members successfully fought back against a number of concessions, and won several key provisions that will improve the working conditions and compensation of gallery workers today, and for years to come,” said CUPE 15 President Warren Williams.

The four-year deal does not include the gallery’s proposed concession on scheduling, provides retroactive wage increases of 1.5 per cent in each of 2017 and 2018, and includes future wage adjustments of 1.75 per cent in 2019 and two per cent in 2020.