CALGARY – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees at a Calgary child development agency today overwhelmingly ratified a three-year collective agreement that gives them across-the-board pay increases of five per cent in the first year, four per cent in the second and four per cent in the third.

Because of additional pay for employees with more than 12 years’ service negotiated in the agreement, many employees of the Providence Child Development Centre will receive pay increases of 10 per cent in the first year, said AUPE President Dan MacLennan.

"The pay increases and additional benefits negotiated in this agreement show again the advantages for working people of being part of a union," MacLennan said.

Ken Cutrell, the AUPE Union representative who negotiated the agreement with the elected Local 057/005 bargaining committee, said the contract includes several other important improvements, among them:

• Improvements in contract language pertaining to disciplinary action and the grievance procedure.
• An increased period of parental leave.
• Increases of up to four per cent in the amount paid by the employer into employee Registered Retirement Savings Plans.
• Introduction of the new long-service increment for employees who have worked for Providence for more than 12 years.
• Creation of a new classification to recognize the qualifications and work of educational/therapeutic assistants.
AUPE represents about 25 employees at the Calgary centre, which works with disabled children.

For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cell phone)
Ken Cutrell, Union Representative, AUPE, 403-531-8610 or 403-861-2051 (cell phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943 (cell phone)

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