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Boards & Agencies Services Sector Click here to return to the previous page. Bargaining Updates from 2003 For immediate release: Thursday, May 22, 2003
HINTON - Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees who work at the Yellowhead Emergency Shelter for Women have ratified a new two-year collective agreement.Yellowhead Shelter employees ratify two-year agreement The 13 AUPE members who work at the facility in Hinton ratified the agreement May 20. Their employer, the Yellowhead Emergency Shelter for Women Society, ratified the agreement the same day. The collective agreement gives crisis workers and child care workers employed at the shelter a wage increase of $1.50 per hour in the first year and $1.00 per hour in the second year. That works out to percentage pay increases of 9.26 per cent in the first year and 5.35 per cent in the second year for crisis workers and 9.79 per cent in the first year and 5.6 per cent in the second year for child care workers, said AUPE Staff Negotiator Maria Marrazzo. The agreement also included a long-service bonus of $500 for employees who work more than 12 years at the shelter and retirement savings plan contributions for employees, Marrazzo said. The agreement includes establishment of an education fund that will provide $400 this year for training for each permanent full-time employee, plus pro-rated education contributions for permanent part-time employees, she said. Other changes include improvements in contract language pertaining to seniority, occupational health and safety, workers compensation for casual employees and time off between shifts, Marrazzo said. The agreement takes effect on July 1, 2003. For more information, contact: Dan MacLennan, President, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone) Maria Marrazzo, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3348 or 780-914-2820 (cellular phone) David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone)  For immediate release: Thursday, May 8, 2003
EDMONTON - Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees who work for a grain-handling subsidiary of multinational Cargill Ltd. and representatives of their employer have both ratified a new collective agreement.AUPE members and Alberta Terminals ratify new collective agreement The 22 grain-handling employees of Alberta Terminals in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge voted to ratify the agreement at their worksites earlier this week. The employer ratified the deal Wednesday. The agreement will give the members of AUPE Local 118/109 pay increases of approximately 14 per cent over the life of the contract, said Staff Negotiator Malcolm McNaughton, who led the union bargaining team. The four-year collective agreement is "significantly above industry standards in the grain handling business," McNaughton said. AUPE was prepared to bargain a four-year agreement because of uncertainty about the future of the grain industry caused by continued drought on the Prairies and low world commodity prices, he added. "It took us some time to get this agreement, but in the end the effort was worth it," McNaughton said. Local 118/109 is AUPE's only private-sector bargaining unit and the union's only unit that comes under federal labour law. AUPE is Alberta's largest union, with approximately 53,000 members. For more information, contact: Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone) Malcolm McNaughton, Union Representative, AUPE, 403-343-2154 or 403-304-8245 (cellular phone) For immediate release: Mar. 14, 2003
SHERWOOD PARK - Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees employed by the County of Strathcona have ratified a new three-year collective agreement that gives them pay increases of 3.5 per cent in the first year, four per cent in the second year and a wage re-opener in the third year.County of Strathcona employees ratify three-year collective agreement "This is a good agreement that also contains market adjustments which will give about a third of these employees pay increases above the base percentage raises in the contract," said AUPE President Dan MacLennan The members of AUPE Local 118/009 ratified the agreement Thursday night in voting in Sherwood Park on Edmonton's eastern border. AUPE Union Representative Maria Marrazzo, who negotiated the agreement, said the County of Strathcona employees were pleased by the improvements to their contract included in the settlement. "This was already a good contract and this deal makes it better." Marrazzo said the agreement also includes an increase in weekend and night shift differential pay to $1 from 75 cents and an improvement in the mechanics' tool allowance to $350 from $300. In addition, she said, the agreement includes improvements to overtime pay provisions and to contract language dealing with compassionate leave. AUPE represents about 100 municipal outdoor workers, mechanics, electricians, sanitation employees and others employed by the county in Sherwood Park and surrounding areas. A wage re-opener is a provision that allows wages to be renegotiated in the third year of the collective agreement while all other contract provisions remain in effect. For more information, contact: Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone) Maria Marrazzo, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3348 or 780-914-2820 (cellular phone) David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone) For immediate release: Feb. 25, 2003
SPRUCE GROVE - Spruce Grove City Council has now ratified a mediator's recommended terms of settlement with members of Local 118/001 of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees - bringing a difficult round of bargaining to a conclusion.Spruce Grove City Council ratifies deal with AUPE AUPE members employed by the City of Spruce Grove ratified the mediator's proposed settlement on Feb. 19. With city council's ratification in place, the terms of the new three-year agreement will come into effect immediately, said AUPE Staff Negotiator Steve Nimchuk. AUPE President Dan MacLennan said "I'm happy that these members were able to resolve this matter to their satisfaction." The agreement by Spruce Grove City Council ended the danger of a strike by the city's 25 street maintenance, water and recreation employees. "This group of employees is very pleased to get back to focusing on their important jobs serving the people of Spruce Grove," Nimchuk said. The agreement gives the employees pay increases of four per cent for 2002 and 3.5 per cent in 2003 and another 3.5 per cent in 2004. The contract will run from Jan. 1, 2002, to Dec. 31, 2004. The members will receive retroactive pay immediately for 2002, Nimchuk said. The deal also contains improvements to shift differential pay, leaves of absence and sick leave, as well as job-security and severance provisions. The Local 118/001 members' previous contract expired more than a year ago. They endorsed the use of strike action if necessary to achieve a fair contract on Nov. 12, 2002. For more information, please contact: Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone) Steve Nimchuk, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3341 or 780-919-4831 (cellular phone) David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone) For immediate release: Feb. 19, 2003
SPRUCE GROVE - Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees employed by the City of Spruce Grove late Tuesday ratified a mediator's recommended terms of settlement.AUPE members ratify mediator's recommended settlement with City of Spruce Grove If the proposed three-year collective agreement is also ratified by the Spruce Grove City Council next week, the danger of a strike by the city's street maintenance, water and recreation employees will have been averted. "This is a reasonable and fair agreement for this particular group of 25 workers, and well within the means of the City of Spruce Grove," said AUPE President Dan MacLennan. The settlement recommended by the provincially appointed mediator would give the employees pay increases of four per cent in the first year and 3.5 per cent in each subsequent year of a contract that would run from Jan. 1, 2002, to Dec. 31, 2004. The deal recommended by the mediator and ratified by the AUPE members also contains improvements shift differential pay, leaves of absence and sick leave, as well as job-security and severance provisions. The Local 118/001 members' contract expired more than a year ago. They endorsed the use of strike action if necessary to achieve a fair contract on Nov. 12, 2002. AUPE Staff Negotiator Steve Nimchuk said he is hopeful Spruce Grove City Council will ratify the deal at its next regular meeting on Feb. 24. "The city agreed to participate in the mediation process, as did we," Nimchuk said. "The mediator has recommended a compromise settlement that our members have voted to accept even though it does not contain all that they hoped for in this round of bargaining. "We expect City Council members to take the same reasonable approach that our members did," he concluded. "Our members are anxious to get back to concentrating on their jobs serving the people of Spruce Grove." For more information, please contact: Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular phone) Steve Nimchuk, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3341 or 780-919-4831 (cellular phone) David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cellular phone) |
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